Jazz: New York in the Roaring Twenties

Koln: Taschen, 2014. Hardcover. VG (light shelfwear to boards. Pages are very clean). Black cloth boards with white and brown lettering and illustrations, 144 pp, profusely illustrated throughout. Included in the rear is an audio disc. It's the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New York's jazz scene in the 1920s, complete with a CD containing some of their best tunes. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jürgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the "band battles," as well as the legendary recording sessions.--Publisher's description. Portraits of jazz musicians and other illustrations drawn by R. Nippoldt with accompanying text by Hans-Jürgen Schall translated into English by Isabel Varea. Includes bibliographical references (page 138) and discography (pages 139-141). Selections on accompanying sound disc originally recorded in New York (1 in New Jersey) 1917-1932.