Women's contribution to jazz has been mostly as singers, though a few have also been instrumentalists. If you'd like to give some of the ladies of jazz a place in your home, office or classroom, here are some posters and art prints featuring Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and -- in a rare treat -- Lil Armstrong, appearing with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Billie Holiday Posters
Billie Holiday, Lady Day, is known for her blues and jazz music -- and also for her tragic and early death at 44, hastened by drug use and her out-of-control life. But her music still haunts us today.
Ella Fitzgerald Posters
Sometimes called the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald's long career as a jazz and pop diva has left a marvelous musical heritage.Josephine Baker Posters
One of the best-known entertainers in her day -- in France and Europe, even more than in the United States, where racial prejudice and political innuendo hampered her career -- Josephine Baker sang and danced her way to stardom. Period posters were often both exotic and erotic.Sarah Vaughan Posters
Sarah Vaughan -- known as "The Divine One" and "Sassy" -- performed classic jazz and pop music for almost fifty years. She never attained quite the status of Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday, but she is one of the divas of jazz nevertheless.Aretha Franklin Posters
Posters of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.Jazz Portrait, Harlem 1958
Poster-sized versions of the Art Kane 1958 photograph of the women and men of Harlem's jazz scene.