Francis Wolff’s photographs bring the glory days of jazz back to life

Francis Wolff (1907 – 1971) did not consider himself an artist, but rather an amateur photographer. Together with Alfred Lion, who, like Wolff, had fled Germany to escape the Nazis, he founded the renowned Blue Note label. The first music they released were records by boogie-woogie pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. From the […]