Take Five: By Holiday

Following her conversion to Catholicism, pianist Mary Lou Williams began to compose and record religious music. William Gottlieb/Library of Congress hide caption

Detail from cover of Geri Allen, A Child Is Born. Motema Music hide caption

A real skeletal jazz band.

Got your burger ready? stu_spivak via Flickr hide caption

Ella Fitzgerald: Putting all her Easter eggs in one basket. Photo Illustration: Lars Gotrich/Photos: William Gottlieb/Library of Congress via Flickr, iStock. hide caption

Second Chief "Lil Bo" of the Wild Magnolias. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

Professor Longhair's "Tipitina" is a New Orleans funk staple and a template for the New Orleans piano style. Eric Bookhart/Harvest Records hide caption

Hiromi Uehara. Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Album cover of Putumayo's New Orleans Christmas. Courtesy of Putumayo World Music hide caption

Horace Silver on the cover of his record Song for My Father. Courtesy of Blue Note hide caption