Ted Williams

Ted Williams first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas.

The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway br oadcast from Chicago's legendary Grand Terrace Ballroom inspired him, and in the late 1940s, Williams merged his love of music and photography and moved to Chicago where he captured unguarded photographic studies of some of the era's greatest jazz musicians. His work appeared in major international publications including Time, Newsweek, Look, Playboy, and Ebony. His coverage of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival landed him a spectacular 21-page layout in Down Beat magazine. Williams was active on the jazz scene from the late 1940s until the late 1970s. He photographed many of the greats in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. Williams’ historic archive runs to more than 100,000 images and comprises perhaps the most intimate and complete collection of Jazz’s greatest musicians at work, rest and play.

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Louis Armstrong in Chicago By Ted Williams
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Ray Charles at home By Ted Williams
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Count Basie Plays for Daddy-O By Ted Williams
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Ira Sullivan By Ted Williams
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Sarah Vaughan By Ted Williams
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie By Ted Williams
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Thelonious Monk in Chicago By Ted Williams
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Miles Davis at the Civic Opera House By Ted Williams
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Art Farmer and Benny Golson By Ted Williams
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Dizzy Gillespie for DownBeat magazine By Ted Williams
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Gene Lees and Dizzy Gillespie play chess By Ted Williams
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Duke Ellington in Chicago By Ted Williams
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra By Ted Williams
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet By Ted Williams
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Count Basie at the Trianon Ballroom By Ted Williams
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Buddy Rich By Ted Williams
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Billie Singing By Ted Williams
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Tony Bennett on stage By Ted Williams
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Wynton Marsalis Plays By Ted Williams
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Sonny Rollins By Ted Williams
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Paul Desmond By Ted Williams
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Lester Young By Ted Williams
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The Jazz audience By Ted Williams
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Louis Armstrong in Rhode Island By Ted Williams
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