Bob Willoughy is better known for his remarkable Hollywood film coverage of the 50s, 60s and 70s, but here is the legendary photographer early in his career documenting something he truly loved. A golden era in jazz that Dave Brubeck, who writes the foreword for Jazz, calls "the beginning of the beyond".
"A beautiful artifact, the book evokes, in words and pictures, the
Los Angeles jazz scene of the early-to-mid 1950s as vividly as
Francis Wolff's work in New York nails East Coast hard bop." -
AllAboutJazz.com
"Willoughby's jazz photos are evocative and resonant, sometimes
spectacularly so... a handsome realization of a project the
photographer was working on...Together they add up to a revealing
snapshot of a serious artist at the top of his game." - JAZZIZ
A beautiful artifact, the book evokes, in words and pictures, the
Los Angeles jazz scene of the early-to-mid 1950s as vividly as
Francis Wolff's work in New York nails East Coast hard bop. -
AllAboutJazz.com"
"Willoughby s jazz photos are evocative and resonant, sometimes
spectacularly so... a handsome realization of a project the
photographer was working on Together they add up to a revealing
snapshot of a serious artist at the top of his game. - "JAZZIZ"
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"A beautiful artifact, the book evokes, in words and pictures, the
Los Angeles jazz scene of the early-to-mid 1950s as vividly as
Francis Wolff's work in New York nails East Coast hard bop." -
AllAboutJazz.com
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