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Jazz for a Candid Camera

The Wall Street Journal

November 29, 2025

IN "LISETTE MODEL: The Jazz Pictures" (Eakins Press Foundation) trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie plays chess on a lawn in the Berkshires between gigs; Louis Armstrong plays ecstatically at a New York City club and looks exhausted in his tour bus; and devotees huddle in a rainstorm at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.

- Peter Saenger

Lisette Model took hundreds of photos of jazz icons, including Billie Holiday (left) rehearsing in 1956, and Louis Armstrong performing in 1954 (above).

This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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