Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years - Hardcover

Minor, William; Wishner, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883318408 ISBN 13: 9781883318406

Publisher: Angel City Press, 1997

Synopsis

In Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, jazz journalist William Minor tells the story of the oldest, continuously performed jazz gathering in the world, the story of forty weekends of jazz that welcomed the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Janis Joplin, Herbie Hancock and Joshua Redman, all to the same stage. Photographer and photo editor Bill Wishner has collected more than one hundred fifty rare images of the performers and performances that have highlighted the Festival over nearly half a century. Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years includes a complete listing of musicians who have performed on the Monterey stages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1883318408
• ISBN 13: 9781883318406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176