The Rolling Stones.
📷 Mark and Colleen Hayward

Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John Hurt at the Newport Folk Festival.
📷 David Gahr

Duane Allman and King Curtis, 1969.
📷 Stephen Paley

Django Reinhardt.
📷 Michael Ochs Archives

Ginger Baker, 1967.
📷 Michael Ochs Archives

Tom Jones and Louis Armstrong.
📷 Getty

Freddie King.
📷 David Warner

Billie Holiday performing in New York.
📷 Michael Ochs Archives

Les Paul and Chet Atkins.
📷 Jim Garrett

Lonnie Johnson with a fan at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 1963.
📷 Jeremy Fletcher

Skip James.
📷 Jan Persson

Sonny Boy Williamson II.
📷 Michael Ochs Archives

Maybelle Carter at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963.
📷 David Gahr

Sarah Vaughan.
📷 Metronome

Joe Pass.
📷 Michael Ochs Archives

John Coltrane and Count Basie.
📷 CBS

Thelonious Monk.
📷 Georges Galmiche

Dolly Parton.
📷 David Gahr

Ray Charles on Saturday Night Live, 1977.
📷 NBC

Tina Turner, Paris, 1971.
📷 Patrice Habans