Remembrance of Photographer Herman Leonard

By Fred Kasten

New Orleans – When photographer Herman Leonard died Saturday in Los Angeles - at age 87 - he left a rich legacy of some of the finest photographic portraits ever made of such iconic American musicians as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Mile Davis. This remembrance is drawn from a 1996 interview with WWNO's Fred Kasten...

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