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This 1991 photo released by Herman Leonard Photography shows jazz great Miles Davis in Montreux, Switzerland, where Davis would perform his last concert, six weeks before he died. The photographer Herman Leonard followed Davis over four decades, from his beginnings as a trumpeter in the late 1940s. "I could see in his face ... he knew he was dying," Mr. Leonard recalled of this photo. (AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES)
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This 1949 photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows Billie Holiday cooking a steak for her dog Mister in her apartment in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. The photographer, Herman Leonard, said she came to the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron and "First I thought, this is the maid." But it was Holiday, one of the greatest voices of modern time, whom Mr. Leonard would continue to photograph throughout her life. (AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES)
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This 1948 file photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon photographed by Herman Leonard, with Gordon enveloped in his cigarette smoke at the Royal Roost in New York. Mr. Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, died Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokeswoman Geraldine Baum said. He was 87. (AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES, File)
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In this photo provided by Jim McHugh, photographer Herman Leonard is seen at his home in Pasadena, Calif., on May 15, 2010. Mr. Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, died Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokeswoman Geraldine Baum said. He was 87. (AP Photo/Jim McHugh)
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FILE - This 1948 file photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon photographed by Herman Leonard, with Gordon enveloped in his cigarette smoke at the Royal Roost in New York. Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, died Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokeswoman Geraldine Baum . He was 87. (AP Photo/Herman Leonard Photography, LLC., CTSIMAGES, File)
