Jazz Posters (Collection Jazz)

Fully trilingual: German & English & French. Hardcover, 21 x 13.5cm, 240 pages including 103 colour posters, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Dust jacket with a puncture/small rip, a bit of rubbing to the edges. -- Niklaus Troxler, Swiss graphic designer and longtime director of the Willisau Jazz Festival since its inception in 1971, presents a retrospective collection of his festival posters spanning two decades. The book reproduces over 100 posters designed for performances by jazz luminaries including McCoy Tyner, Dexter Gordon, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Dewey Redman, Don Pullen, Nat Adderley, Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Dave Holland, Hermeto Pascoal, Aki Takase, and many others, capturing the festival's ecumenical spirit that embraced free jazz, fusion, and avant-garde. Troxler's designs exemplify the Swiss International Typographic Style through stark sans-serif typography, asymmetrical layouts, high-contrast photography, and innovative use of colour overlays and spot varnish, evolving from musician portraits in the 1970s to abstract, music-evoking graphics by the 1980s.…