Welome to the Herman Leonard website. This site contains world acclaimed photographs of jazz legends including: Charlie Bird Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker and Ella Fitgerald. Also included are many other Herman Leonard images from Paris, Morocco, The Far East, New York City and New Orleans.

"He's got this passion for photography... no one photographs better than Herman Leonard." -- Tony Bennett

Herman Leonard For many of us, the photography of Herman Leonard is our first link to jazz culture. Ellington in Paris, Dexter with a Chesterfield, a youthful Miles, Satchmo in Birdland...These images, in some cases more so than the music, are responsible for our devotion to preserving and protecting the art the musicians of mid 20th Century America created, and Herman Leonard reported on. We ...