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Birdland – Street View (Photo: William Claxton)
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Birdland Street Entrance
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Max Kaminsky, Lester Young, Hot Lips Page, Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano – Birdland 1949
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Opening Night Poster
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Charlie Parker with Strings – Birdland 1951 (Photo: Marcel Fleiss)
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Ray Brown and Ella fitzgerald at Birdland(Photo: Marcel Fleiss)
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Erroll Garner and Art Tatum – Birdland 1952 (Photo: Marcel Fleiss)
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Charlie Parker – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)
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Bud Powell and Art Blakey – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)
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Miles Davis – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Frank Driggs)
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Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane Birdland 1950
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Bud Powell at Birdland
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Sarah Vaughan – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)
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Clifford Brown, Curly Russell, Lou Donaldson, Art Blakey Live at Birdland – 1954 (Photo: Francis Wolff)
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Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson – Birdland 1954 (Photo: Francis Wolff)
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George Shearing Quintet – Birdland 1949
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Pee Wee Marquette (Birdland MC) and Count Basie (Photo: Lee Friedlander)
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Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
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Tommy Potter, Stan Getz and Al Haig – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)
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Bud Powell – Birdland 1958
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Oscar Pettiford Orchestra
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Stan Kenton & Count Basie Jazz Tour – Birdland 1962 Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison (2nd to Right)
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Stan Kenton musicians outside Birdland – (left) Conte Condoli (right) Sal Salvador
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Johnny Smith at Birdland
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Charlie “Yardbird” Parker & Dizzy Gillespie (Photo: Herman Leonard)
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Sarah Vaughan at Birdland