Birdland – Street View (Photo: William Claxton)

Birdland Street Entrance

Max Kaminsky, Lester Young, Hot Lips Page, Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano – Birdland 1949

Opening Night Poster

Charlie Parker with Strings – Birdland 1951 (Photo: Marcel Fleiss)

Ray Brown and Ella fitzgerald at Birdland(Photo: Marcel Fleiss)

Erroll Garner and Art Tatum – Birdland 1952 (Photo: Marcel Fleiss)

Charlie Parker – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)

Bud Powell and Art Blakey – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)

Miles Davis – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Frank Driggs)

Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane Birdland 1950

Bud Powell at Birdland

Sarah Vaughan – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)

Clifford Brown, Curly Russell, Lou Donaldson, Art Blakey Live at Birdland – 1954 (Photo: Francis Wolff)

Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson – Birdland 1954 (Photo: Francis Wolff)

George Shearing Quintet – Birdland 1949

Pee Wee Marquette (Birdland MC) and Count Basie (Photo: Lee Friedlander)

Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

Tommy Potter, Stan Getz and Al Haig – Birdland 1949 (Photo: Herman Leonard)

Bud Powell – Birdland 1958

Oscar Pettiford Orchestra

Stan Kenton & Count Basie Jazz Tour – Birdland 1962 Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison (2nd to Right)

Stan Kenton musicians outside Birdland – (left) Conte Condoli (right) Sal Salvador

Johnny Smith at Birdland

Charlie “Yardbird” Parker & Dizzy Gillespie (Photo: Herman Leonard)

Sarah Vaughan at Birdland