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Herman Leonard

November 1, 1997 by: Jan Ramsey

A legend in his time – that's the word for Herman Leonard. Leonard, the photographer whose portrait of Jon Cleary adorns this month's OffBeat cover, has been immortalizing music greats with his emotionally-imbued, dramatically-lit photos since the 1940s, when his passion for jazz took him to New York's smoky jazz clubs, with his camera as a free ticket to hear the greats of jazz history: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and countl...

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