The fierce growl of Mingus’s bass, the reverent pose of Bill Evans bowing to his piano, the ferocious smile of Louis Armstrong, radiating like sunlight behind his shiny trumpet: these are some of the faces that appear in Roberto Polillo’s collection of photographs, entitled ‘Jazz Icons’.Along with these, Keith Jarrett is portrayed dancing above his keyboard, Miles Davis becomes a dark shadow in the distance, Abbey Lincoln is caught in a moment of surprise. The Italian photographer was able to record the soul of the 1960s jazz scene, through the hundreds of protagonists he met with his lens between the years 1962 and 1975.