Ted Williams Fine-Art Catalogue

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TED WILLIAMS FINE-ART CATALOGUE

The best jazz photographer in the world JULIAN “CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY

Ted Williams (1925-2009) first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. Williams merged his love of music and photography and moved to Chicago in the 1940s where he captured unguarded photographic studies of some of the era’s greatest jazz musicians.

His work appeared in major international publications including Time, Newsweek, Look, Playboy and Ebony. His coverage of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival landed him a spectacular 21-page layout in DownBeat magazine.

Williams was active on the jazz scene from the late 1940s until the late 1970s and photographed many of the greats in jazz.

Williams’ historic archive runs to more than 100,000 images and comprises perhaps the most intimate and complete collection of Jazz’s greatest musicians at work, rest and play.

The best jazz photographer in the world JULIAN “CANNONBALL” ADDERLEY

The photographs that captured the icons of Jazz TIME MAGAZINE

In these photographs… the music plays on, never dated, always right on time

JOHN LELAND, NEW YORK TIMES

Ted Williams captured the musicians who made jazz into the great American art form THE GUARDIAN

This is the best, most comprehensive jazz book I’ve ever seen - and I’ve bought them all TERRY O’NEILL

Williams was an important part of jazz history, and this book belongs in the collection of anyone interested in the history of America’s greatest art form DOWNBEAT

The Ted Williams Archive consists of more than 100,000 images and only a small selection is included here in this catalogue.

For more information or to see additional images, including a vast array of jazz legends, please contact us directly.

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JAZZ

The Audience At Joe Segal’s club, Chicago, 1960s Media Name: TW_IS009

Chicago L to R: Johnny Frigo, Lurlean Hunter and Johnny Griffin on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Chicago Avenue for DownBeat magazine Media Name: TW_JG001

Instruments John Coltranes’ saxophone and Miles Davis’ trumpet on Sarah Vaughans dressing table, Chicago, IL, 1958 Media Name: TW_SL003

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley At the Blue Note, Chicago, 1960 Media Name: TW_CA002

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley and his brother, Nat Adderley At the Blue Note, Chicago, 1960 Media Name: TW_CA003

Louis Armstrong At the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1957 Media Name: TW_LA010

Louis Armstrong At the University of Chicago Theater in the Round, IL, 1962 Media Name: TW_LA011

Count Basie On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_CB003

Count Basie At the Blue Note, Chicago, 1962 Media Name: TW_CB024

Count Basie At the Trianon Ballroom, Chicago Media Name: TW_CB004

Count Basie Marquee Exterior of Trianon Ballroom in Chicago Media Name: TW_DE085

Dinah Washington On-stage at Civic Opera House, Chicago 1956 Media Name: TW_CA014

Dave Brubeck In Chicago Media Name:TW_DB001

Dave Brubeck At Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, Chicago, April 1961 Media Name: TW_DB002

The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, Chicago, April 1961 Media Name: TW_DB008

Ray Charles Performing on stage Media Name: TW_RC010

Ray Charles During a recording for The Carol Burnett Show which was aired 26th January 1972 Media Name: TW_RC014

Joe Williams With the Count Basie band at Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1957 Media Name: TW_JW002

In performance, he seemed oblivious not only to cameras but to everything except his music. He was a very imposing figure TED WILLIAMS

John Coltrane Chicago Media Name: TW_JC002

Miles Davis Backstage in Chicago Media Name: TW_MD010

Paul Desmond At Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, Chicago, April 1961 Media Name: TW_DB005

Paul Desmond Outside during Downbeat Jazz Festival, Chicago, 1965 Media Name: TW_PD001

Paul Desmond Behind the scenes of American television show Playboy’s Penthouse, October 24, 1959 Media Name: TW_PP012

Duke Ellington At the University of Chicago, 1960 Media Name: TW_DE001

After the rich, lush sound of the full Ellington Orchestra, when Duke plays solo piano it’s just Duke the man, and his music TED WILLIAMS

Duke Ellington At a recording session, Chicago, 1966 Media Name: TW_DE002

Duke Ellington In Washington Park, Chicago, IL, 1956 Media Name: TW_DE022

Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves and Harold “Shorty� Baker Three sidemen with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in Chicago, 1959 Media Name: TW_CT004

Duke Ellington During a shipboard party on the Ile de France, New York,1958 Media Name: TW_DE070

Duke Ellington On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_DE041

Duke Ellington At the Blue Note, Chicago, September 1957 Media Name: TW_DE023

Duke Ellington On-stage at Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, July 1959 Media Name: TW_DE069

Ella Fitzgerald On Ken Nordine’s television show, Chicago, 1961 Media Name: TW_EF001

Ella Fitzgerald On-stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1957 Media Name: TW_LA027

Aretha Franklin In Chicago Media Name: TW_AF004

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker At The Pershing Ballroom, 1949 Media Name: TW_CP001

The band had been playing for some time and Charlie Parker had not arrived.

There was a little unrest among the fans out front – after all, it had been billed as “Charlie Parker with Dizzy Gillespie and his Big Band.” After a rather anxious intermission, Dizzy introduces Bird and the excitement level reached fever pitch! They blew together – or alternating solos – traded fours all with that thundering big band behind them.

Aware of Bird’s penchant to wander, Dizzy did not give him much opportunity to escape the bandstand. After some time, Parker wanted a breather, Diz would spin Bird around and shove him toward the microphone and kick off the next number. He knew when Bird left the stand the blowing was over TED WILLIAMS

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker At The Pershing Ballroom, 1949 Media Name: TW_CP002

Gene Lees, editor of DownBeat and close friend of Dizzy, arranged to shoot the cover on Birks’ off day. It was winter and we were to shoot in Milwaukee.

At the time, I was driving a Saab – a rather small car and Dizzy was smoking one of those Sherlock Holmes pipes – a rather large pipe, especially when filled with green tobacco. It was too cold to open a window, I’m not sure any of us really wanted to anyway. By the time we got to the hotel, we were all feeling pretty good, and I was still in good enough shape to focus. This was done in the hotel room. Birks stayed mellow… probably for a week!

TED WILLIAMS

Dizzy Gillespie Outtake from a cover shoot for DownBeat magazine, June 23, 1960 Media Name: TW_DG001

Dizzy Gillespie’s disarming studiousness over the chessboard hums like his geometric solos NEW YORK TIMES ON TED WILLIAMS

Dizzy Gillespie Playing chess with journalist Gene Lees Media Name: TW_DG027

Dizzy Gillespie At Ken Nordine’s jazz TV show in Chicago, 1961 Media Name: TW_DG016

Benny Goodman On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_BG013

Benny Goodman On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_BG005

Sam Jones On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_CA014

Woody Herman On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_WH003

Billie Holiday doesn’t need sound to sing the blues. The camera says it all for her THE GUARDIAN ON TED WILLIAMS

Billie Holiday On-stage in Chicago Media Name: TW_BH001

Mahalia Jackson Portrait for DownBeat magazine, December 11, 1958 Media Name: TW_MJ001

The Jazztet Trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson of The Jazztet in Chicago’s South Side for DownBeat Magazine, 1960 Media Name: TW_TJ005

The Jazztet Trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson of The Jazztet in Chicago’s South Side for DownBeat Magazine, 1960 Media Name:TW_TJ001

Thelonious Monk On-stage at Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1958 Media Name: TW_TM001

Thelonious Monk On-stage at the Birdhouse, Chicago, 1960 Media Name: TW_TM002

Charles Mingus On-stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1959 Media Name: TW_MIN001

Anita O’Day On-stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1958 Media Name: TW_AO001

Buddy Rich On-stage, Chicago Media Name: TW_BR004

Buddy Rich Backstage, Chicago, IL, January 1959 Media Name: TW_BR006

Ira Sullivan At Joe Segal’s club, Chicago, 1960s Media Name: TW_IS007

Ira Sullivan At Joe Segal’s club, Chicago, 1960s Media Name: TW_IS008

Sonny Rollins At the Civic Opera House, Chicago, IL, 1956 Media Name: TW_SR006

Toots Thielemans An afternoon rehearsal at the Blue Note jazz club, as part of The George Shearing Quintet, Chicago, 1953 Media Name: TW_GS007

This (above) was taken on Sarah’s first national tour as a single. I was a student at The Institute of Design at the time, and called Sarah directly at her hotel (possible in those days) and received permission to photograph her in her dressing room for the next issue of a nonexistent college newspaper TED WILLIAMS

Sarah Vaughan In her dressing room at the Chicago Theatre during her first solo tour, 1948 Media Name: TW_SV001

Sarah Vaughan At the Blue Note Jazz Club, Chicago, 1958 Media Name: TW_SV007

Sonny Rollins Drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Bob Cranshaw playing alongside tenor saxophonist, Sonny Rollins at Playboy Jazz Festival, Chicago, 1959 Media Name: TW_SR001

Ramsay Lewis Trio Pianist Ramsey Lewis, drummer Isaac “Redd” Holt, and bass player, Eldee Young, on-stage in Chicago, 1950s Media Name: TW_RL002

Charlie Rouse On-stage at the Birdhouse, Chicago, 1960 Media Name: TW_TM024

Yusef Lateef On-stage in Chicago, 1961 Media Name: TW_YL004

Tony Bennett On-stage in Chicago, 1961 Media Name: TW_TB011

Jazz: The Iconic Images of Ted Williams Published by ACC Art Books.

From the smoky backstage dressing rooms of New York and Chicago’s pioneering jazz clubs to the acclaimed Jazz festivals that flourished to enthrall legions of fans, Ted Williams’ camera captured the intimacy and the wizardry of Jazz’s greats as they perfected their art over more than three decades from the 1940s –1970s.

CIVIL RIGHTS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

Dr. Martin Luther King at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 The same day of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Media Name: TW_CR009

Dr. Martin Luther King at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 Media Name: TW_CR001

Dr. Martin Luther King at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 Media Name: TW_CR008

Crowds at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 Media Name: TW_CR014

Dr. Martin Luther King at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 Media Name: TW_CR016

Crowds at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964 Media Name: TW_CR023

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