Images of Jazz
By Lee Tanner
Friedman/Fairfax, $27.50
ISBN 1567993672
For musicians
Review by Kelsey Allen
With photographs dating from the sixties to the nineties, Lee Tanner's Images of Jazz is an enlivening visual record of the players and innovators that helped shape 30 years of jazz history. Tanner's black-and-white photographs capture jazz in its essence. Here not only lie the images of jazz's greats -- Monk, Mingus, Miles, Duke -- but the greater force of their characters as musicians and individuals. Tanner's talent with the shutter and lens lies in his ability to capture personalities and personas and thus somehow the great life that was and is jazz.
With an introduction by Nat Hentoff and quotations from the musicians themselves on their art, their critics, and their peers, Images of Jazz is a must for everyone from the hardened aficionado to those just learning how to swing and bop.
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