Icons of Jazz: A History in Photographs 1900-2000

In celebration of the first hundred years of jazz, Icons of Jazz presents a selection of musicians & vocalists from all aspects of the genre: the New Orleans & Dixieland of the first two decades of the century; the swing & jump music of the twenties & thirties; bebop & its legacy of the forties & fifties; the free-jazz of the sixties; jazz-rock from the seventies; the melting-pot that was jazz in the eighties & still is in the nineties & the new millennium. Each entry includes details of the life & work of the artist or band featured, recommends seminal recordings, & is illustrated with top-quality photographs.Gelly, Dave is the author of 'Icons of Jazz: A History in Photographs 1900-2000' with ISBN 9781571452689 and ISBN 1571452680.