Royal and singer Dee Dee Bridgewater at an NPR Celebration at Coco Loco, Washington, D.C., 1994. The photo accompanies a profile of Dee Dee in Royal’s Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Photo © 1994 J. Kliman/ Photography You Can Hear.

Royal relating a Joe Venuti anecdote to violinist Regina Carter at the Capital Jazz Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, June 5, 1999. The photo accompanies a profile of Regina in Royal’s Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz (Oxford University Press, 2000).
 Photo © 1999 Jennifer Crescenzo.