Awards

• Winner of 2004 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Silver Medal, Music2005 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection.
• Winner of 2004 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Silver Medal, Music2005 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection.

Overview

Jazz in Black and White collects Duncan Schiedt's classic black-and-white photographs of some of the world's most famous jazz musicians. Each photograph is introduced by a brief biographical summary of the artist, along with a memoir about the photograph's creation that gives the reader a sense of ""having been there."" Included are Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Mary Lou Williams, Lester Young, and Thelonious Monk.

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Reviews

... quite wonderful (and mostly unfamiliar) images... a rich and varied selection, allied to a warm and engaging text. The repro is super, the layout and design spot-on: how can you resist? --Jazzwise, October 2004

Author Information

Duncan Schiedt has photographed jazz musicians for 60 years. He is the author of several books, including The Jazz State of Indiana and Twelve Lives in Jazz, and is co-author with Ed Kirkeby and Sinclair Traill of ""Ain’t Misbehavin’"": The Story of Fats Waller. Schiedt’s original and archival photographs were featured in Ken Burns’s landmark PBS series Jazz, and his work has appeared in international art exhibits and publications worldwide. He lives in Pittsboro, Indiana.

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