THE ROLLING STONES on tour, 1969

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY SEXTET at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 1963

WILLIE NELSON and LEON RUSSELL at the Dripping Springs Festival, Dripping Springs, Texas, 1973

PETER, PAUL, AND MARY, FREEDOM SINGERS, JOAN BAEZ, and BOB DYLAN at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 1963

Basically, the camera is a kind of memoir; it is a diaristic tool. And that’s what I think when you look at a whole, the collection of images: It is a diary of a life in music. And what a beautiful thing.

JEFF ROSENHEIM

SLY STONE, Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, 1969

THE ROLLING STONES, Altamont Free Concert, Altamont Speedway, California, 1969

THE CHARLATANS, San Francisco, 1967

LOGGINS & MESSINA, San Francisco Bay Area, 1971. This photo was shot for the album Loggins & Messina.

JIMI HENDRIX filming JANIS JOPLIN backstage at Winterland, San Francisco, 1968

JIM MARSHALL reflected in a mirror while photographing JERRY GARCIA backstage at Winterland, San Francisco, 1967.

MILES DAVIS, the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1971

MICK JAGGER and KEITH RICHARDS in the recording studio, Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, 1972

MICK JAGGER, Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, 1972

KEITH RICHARDS, Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, 1972

THE ROLLING STONES, Winterland, San Francisco, 1972

KEITH RICHARDS backstage at Winterland, San Francisco, 1972

MICK JAGGER on a plane to Southern California, 1972

THE GRATEFUL DEAD’s last free concert on Haight Street, San Francisco, before they moved to Marin County, 1968

THE GRATEFUL DEAD in the studio, San Francisco, 1967

FREEWHEELIN’ FRANK, secretary of the San Francisco chapter of the Hell’s Angels, who also collaborated with musician Michael McClure, San Francisco, 1967

LED ZEPPELIN, Hyatt House, Los Angeles, 1970

LED ZEPPELIN in the back of a limo, Los Angeles, 1971

LED ZEPPELIN onstage, Los Angeles, 1971

RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, 1973

MICHAEL DOUGLAS, photographed for the magazine City of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1975

ERIC CLAPTON in Jim Marshall’s apartment on Union Street, San Francisco, 1967

JEFF BECK, San Jose, California, 1978

LEON RUSSELL and WILLIE NELSON, Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic, Dripping Springs, Texas, 1973

WILLIE NELSON and WAYLON JENNINGS, Dripping Springs Festival, Dripping Springs, Texas, 1972

WAYLON JENNINGS and JOHNNY CASH at Cash’s home recording studio, Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1974