Cover art to Phil Woods' Rights Of Swing, 1961.
Woody Herman in 1946.

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Trombonist and arranger Melba Liston is one of the women featured in a new documentary about female instrumentalists in jazz, The Girls in the Band.
Turkish-German vocalist Esra Dalfidan sings in several languages with her band FIDAN.
Jaki Byard (left) and Tommy Flanagan.
Symphony Sid Torin (left) hosts a program at WHOM featuring the saxophonist Arnett Cobb.
The bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie on 52nd Street in New York, which was filled with small jazz clubs in the 1940s.