Large Softcover
1994 · Toronto
by Lees, Gene
Toronto: Stewart House, 1994. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 8x0x11. Reeves, John. Ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1994 Large Softcover. 216 pp. "World-famous jazz author Gene Lees and internationally acclaimed photographer John Reeves spent four years meeting more than one hundred jazz musicians from the United States, England, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Russia. Jazz Lives presents the fruits of their encounters. In Reeves' superb photographs and Lees' expert text, one discovers the history of America's greatest musical gift to the twentieth century in the lives of its most accomplished practitioners. Arranged chronologically, from oldest musician to youngest, Jazz Lives traces the heady progress of jazz through this century to the dawn of the next. It's a celebration of youth and maturity, men and women, the famous and the rising stars of jazz music's next generation. Here are the faces behind the music, the lives who make jazz live. (Inventory #: 2303793)