Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950 - Hardcover

Driggs, Frank; Lewine, Harris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688037712 ISBN 13: 9780688037710

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1982

Synopsis

An outline of the development of jazz is accompanied by photographs of musicians ranging from Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet to Charlie Parker and Miles Davis

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Driggs, noted jazz historian, record producer, and photo archivist, operates the renowned Frank Driggs Collection of jazz history and American popular culture. Harris Lewine, acclaimed art director and book packager, has worked in jazz at Riverside Records, been art director for five major publishing houses, and written, co-written, and edited a myriad of books.

Review:

"Even ten thousand words can't match the power of these pictures in recalling glory moments. A momentous achievement." -- Studs Terkel

"The most comprehensive assemblage of jazz photographs and memorabilia yet to appear between book boards. It is a fact-crammed work that has many an insight along with the information and pictorial delights." -- W. Royal Stokes, Jazz Line

"The most visually attractive jazz book ever published." -- Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0688037712
• ISBN 13: 9780688037710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360