Quite Continental

All images below taken by Gjon Mili in 1943, via LIFE.

Lady Day.  Amaze.  Amaze!

Duke Ellington at piano.  Dizzy Gillespie to his right.

Ellington.

Conde Nast President Iva Patcevitch (2R),
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edna Woolman Chase (R),
Unidentified others from Vogue.

Lady Day.

Vocalist Lee Wiley.