This is the sights and sounds of American jazz at a special best-seller price.In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians.The book "Jazzlife", the original fruit of their labors, has become a collector's item that is highly treasured among jazz and photography fans. In 2003, TASCHEN ...
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This is the sights and sounds of American jazz at a special best-seller price.In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians.The book "Jazzlife", the original fruit of their labors, has become a collector's item that is highly treasured among jazz and photography fans. In 2003, TASCHEN began reassembling this important collection of material - along with many never-before-seen color images from those trips. They are brought together in this updated volume, which includes a foreword by William Claxton tracing his travels with Berendt and his love affair with jazz music in general. Jazz fans will be delighted to be able to take a jazz-trip through time, seeing the music as Claxton and Berendt originally experienced it.It features photographs of Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor Szabo, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and many more.
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Add this copy of Jazzlife: a Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 to cart. $182.00, like new condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Taschen.
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Very Good. 2005. Illustrated. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Folio. 695 pp. Profusely illustarted. Includes CD in rear pouch. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover, itself somewhat worn especially at lower front corner. Contents very sound. Very Good. (Subject: Photography).
Add this copy of Jazzlife: a Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 to cart. $244.42, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Taschen America Llc.
Do not pick up this book if you have any number of chores to finish, assignments to complete, children to feed, pressing appointments to keep... Once you start turning the pages, you may forget time, lose sense of time... The images and anecdotes are such a delight. Varies from the classic images you may have already seen in famous publications, ranging to snaps never before published. Another great collector's item for jazz lovers and William Claxton fans!
