William Claxton. Jazzlife - Reviews
"In 1960, Claxton joined with musicologist Joachim Berendt for an unusual project. They documented jazz in New York, L.A., Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City and other cities. The result was a staggering panorama of photos and text, published only in Germany, Jazzlife in 1961. It`s been a missing grail in jazz circles and TASCHEN has reprinted it in coffee table dimensions."Senior Life Magazine, Los AngelesUnited States |
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"This is a very important record of Jazz, America's greatest art. Once Dennis Hopper described 'I am more excited to see Claxton's photo rather than going to Jazz club', Claxton has been the master of Jazz since 1960s. Through his lense, many famous stars and unknown musicians opened their mind and were shot lively."Groove, TokyoJapan |
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"In 1959 and 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States for the research of American Jazz. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians. The original book Jazzlife, the fruit of their labors was published in 1961 and became a collector`s item among jazz fans. TASCHEN reassembled and re-edited this very important book. Featuring photographs of Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor Szabo, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and more. Also you can not miss the bonus CD, which was recorded during their trip."Playboy Japan, TokyoJapan |
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"Das tollste Buch aller Zeiten, großzügig, warm, umwerfend schön … liebevoll editiert. Sensationell."Amica, MünchenGermany |
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"This heavy weight volume is an essential buy for fans of jazz music."Rhythm & Blues Magazine, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"There is a special beauty and intimacy—a truth―to Claxton`s jazz images, some of the most revealing ever taken in the music`s century-long history. . .And now hundreds of those images―about one-third of which have never before been published―have been painstakingly reproduced on thick paper in a lavish volume―at 695 oversize pages, it`s heavy enough to tip over a coffee table―titled Jazzlife."San Jose Mercury News, San JoseUnited States |
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"The hallmark of Claxton`s jazz photographs is the photojournalistic approach he has most often taken to his chosen subject. While some of the photographs in Jazzlife are studio shots created as album covers, most are candid and casual images that capture musicians either in performance or in off-stage moments."Photo District News, New YorkUnited States |
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"Pocos nombres fuera de la música más ligados a ella que el fotógrafo del jazz, William Claxton. Un hombre espigado y distinguido, vestido elegantmente, que viaja por Estados Unidos promocionando Jazzlife (TASCHEN) un libro que recoge la esencia misma del jazz."Club Cultura, MadridSpain |
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"Se considera apenas un photo journalist aficionado al jazz, aunque, para muchos, es uno del os mejores fotógrafos dela historia. En su paso por Madrid, William Claxton pudo contemplar el resultado impreso de su viaje por los Estados Unidos junto al musicólogo Joachim Berendt, plasmado en la reciente edición de Jazlife (TASCHEN) y cuyo contendio forma parte dela iconografía del jazz, además de seguir deparando suculuntas y abundantes sorpresas visuales."Cuadernos de Jazz, MadridSpain |
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"Just when you thought the Jelly Roll Morton box set was this year`s Ultimate Jazz Gift, along comes the most humongous, amazing, sumptuous jazz photography book ever printed, to usurp the title. Or should I say heavyweight title? Jazzlife, weighing in at 15 pounds, thick as a world atlas, with 696 glorious, glossy 11-by16-inch pages, Bill Claxton`s cinematic documentary of a four-month research trip around America in the summer of 1960, with the late German jazz critic, Joachim Berendt, is a lifetime resource of renewable pleasure."Seattle Times, SeattleUnited States |
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William Claxton. Jazzlife
Claxton, William / Claxton, William / Berendt, Joachim E.
Hardcover + CD, 29.1 x 40.7 cm (11.5 x 16 in.), 696 pages $ 200.00 ISBN: 978-3-8228-3066-6 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
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