Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson

by W. Royal Stokes

Book Overview

This text reproduces the photographs of Charles Peterson. The commentary is historical and biographical, with anecdotes connecting the musicians featured in the pictures. The photographs were restored... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566392276
• ISBN13: 9781566392273
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Photographs that will wow you!

Mr. Peterson's photographs are world reknowned and here have been carefully reproduced and edited by Dr. Stokes to bring to life both the musicians and the environment of the dynamic jazz period, 1930-1950s. The pictures of the Savoy Ballroom make you want to get up and dance! You can almost hear the music. This book should be on every jazz enthusiast's bookshelf, so that the unknowing can be convinced of the influence jazz played at this time in American history.