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Seeing Jazz: Artists & Writers On Jazz
Within these 144 pages, Seeing Jazz is a showcase of 77 paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, and photographs, accompanied by literary selections, that express the many moods of jazz. This is jazz, art, and literature in concert.
In this museum of artists are, but not limited to, include Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, James Phillips, Miles Davis, Gjon Mili, Jacob Lawrence, Stuart Davis, Ann Tanksley, Archibald Motley, Ed Love, Gordon Parks, JeanMichel Basquiat, Henri Matisse, William Claxton, Stuart Davis, Ed Love, and Man Ray,
A representation of authors include Julio Cortazar, Ntozake Shange, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. The Foreword was written by trumpeter Calrk Terry, the Afterword by bassist Milt Hinton. The introduction is by Columbia University jazz scholar Robert O’Meally.
Whether it is improvisation, spontaneity, fusion, freedom or innovation, jazz has always been about more than music, and the ideas and moods of jazz have ruffled the minds of creatives throughout every category of the arts.
Seeing Jazz: 1997 | Marquette Folley-Cooper, Deborah Macanic, Janice McNeil
Chronicle Books | Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
