INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Photostory10: Dizzy and Duke

On September 18, 1970, Paul Slaughter was at the Monterey Jazz Festival photographing the performers for Transworld Features when he captured the image you see here (click to enlarge). I love Paul's photo of Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. In their expressions, you see all of the joy, confidence and playfulness of jazz and jazz-entertainment history. But rather than get ahead of the story, let me have Paul fill you in:"This was my second Monterey Jazz Festival as a photographer. Just a handf...

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