Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has passed away. Leonard is considered to be one of the great midcentury jazz-scene photographers, capturing Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis during their heyday. The Smithsonian Institution has 130 of Leonard's photos in its permanent collection. He lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina flooded his home, destroying thousands of his prints. After the hurricane, 
Leonard relocated to Los Angeles.
He was 87.
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Times.Miles Davis, Birdland [MLD08], 1949
Billie Holiday, NYC, New York [BLH03] (1949)
