Blue Note The Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff

by Charlie Lourie

Following the success of Rizzoli's The Blue Note Years , the treasured archive of Francis Wolff photographs has been opened once again to present a previously unseen collection of dynamic images. Included aer never-before-published color images from Wolff's later years of photography. This volume is a collection of the jazz photographs taken from 1941 to 1968 by Francis Wolff, cofounder of Blue Note Records, to document the world's most famous jazz label.

Vignettes tell the story of Blue Note Records; its founders, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff; recording master, Rudy Van Gelder; and many of the labels' great artists--Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, and Art Blakey, among others.

Genres: Music, Photography, Art

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2000

Reviews

[Carlos Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Photography and best jazz ever… A great book. Great historic document. Great entertainment.

[Raka Satay · Rating 5 out of 5]

this one is all pleasing image of jazz musician who recording their masterpiece-magnum opus track at Blue Note, and always Francis Wolff made it entirely perfect when it come to photography. It looked like you be there as a person who enjoyed their jazz specially for you.

the printing who made in Italy i guess there is no way better than this printing type, i bought this book from alibris and end up for my thesis who talked about Roland Barthes: Studium & Punctum. I studied each photo's according to Barthes theory and it beautifully transcends me in to some other realms who perfectly fit spiritually jazz reading.

[Eric Byrd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome. Leaves William Claxton choking in the dust. Wolff's shot of John Patton--at piano, his sweat-gemmed face, shut eyes and slightly parted lips set on a giant white turtle neck sweater--is up there with Avedon's 1955 Marian Anderson as a timeless image of ecstatic musical transport.

Found it!

http://www.pixagogo.com/Photos/Albums...

Anderson by Avedon:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phev...

[F.C. Etier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read my complete review here:

http://technorati.com/entertainment/m...