Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs live on June 30, 1947 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on July 26, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs live on January 31, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on April 10, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs live on January 31, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs live on June 30, 1947 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on February 26, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on February 26, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on February 26, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
The founders of Capitol Records pose for a photo in their Sunset Blvd offices on July 21, 1943 in Los Angeles, California.
Singer Margaret Whiting sings at a recording session October 9, 1946 in the Capitol Records Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Singer Frank Sinatra holds sheet music as a man stands behind a podium on his left on February 15, 1946. The bottom of microphone with the letters...
Singer Frank Sinatra records at an NBC microphone as arranger Jimmy Mundy smokes a pipe in circa 1945.
Singers Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra sing in to a vintage NBC microphone at the piano on February 15, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Folk and blues singer and guitarist Huddie Ledbetter aka Lead Belly or Leadbelly in the C.P. MacGregor studio circa 1944 in Los Angeles, California.
Musician Dexter Gordon poses for a portrait with his saxophone on July 12, 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Big Band leader Count Basie sits at the Piano accompanied by DJ and record company owner Gene Norman an unidentified man and producer John Hammond on...
Bassist Johnny Miller, guitarist Oscar Moore and pianist Nat 'King' Cole of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" pose for a portrait with Johnny Mercer in...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Bassist Johnny Miller, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and guitarist Oscar Moore of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Bassist Johnny Miller, guitarist Oscar Moore and pianist Nat 'King' Cole of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Bassist Johnny Miller, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and guitarist Oscar Moore of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Bassist Johnny Miller, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and guitarist Oscar Moore of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Guitarist Oscar Moore, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Pianist Nat 'King' Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on March 15,...
Bassist Johnny Miller, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and guitarist Oscar Moore of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Guitarist Oscar Moore, pianist Nat 'King' Cole and bassist Johnny Miller of the "Nat 'King' Cole Trio" record in Capitol Records studios on December...
Composer Billy May records in Capitol Records studios on December 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Composer Billy May records in Capitol Records studios on December 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Composer Billy May records in Capitol Records studios on December 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Composer Billy May records in Capitol Records studios on December 10, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Jazz singer Peggy Lee and her husband Dave Barbour hold their baby girl in the Capitol Records office on November 3, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Jazz drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa rehearses in the Capitol Records studio on February 20, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Folk and blues singer and guitarist Huddie Ledbetter aka Lead Belly or Leadbelly in the C.P. MacGregor studio circa 1944 in Los Angeles, California.
Crooner Herb Jeffries, songwriter Otis Rene and percussionist Lionel Hampton pose for a portrait in an office of Capitol Records on October 23, 1945...
Crooner Herb Jeffries, songwriter Otis Rene and percussionist Lionel Hampton pose for a portrait in an office of Capitol Records on October 23, 1945...
Musician Dexter Gordon poses for a portrait with his saxophone on July 12, 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Musician Dexter Gordon poses for a portrait with his saxophone on July 12, 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner performs live on June 30, 1947 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner rehearses in the studio on April 10, 1946 in Los Angeles, california. (Photo by Ray Whitten/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty...
Singing group The Dinning Sisters pose for a portrait as they board a Greyhound bus bound for Reno on March 23, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Singing group The Dinning Sisters pose for a portrait as they board a Greyhound bus bound for Reno on March 23, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Singing group The Dinning Sisters in the recording studio on January 10, 1946 in Los Angeles California.
Singing group The Dinning Sisters in the recording studio on January 10, 1946 in Los Angeles California.
Entertainer Nat "King" Cole records at Capitol Recording Studios in circa 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Entertainer Nat "King" Cole records at Capitol Recording Studios in circa 1946 in Los Angeles, California.