Seventh Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Program Book PDF Download

In The Art of Jazz, moted music and culture writers Keith and Kent Zimmerman celebrate the historic images created to promote and memorialize the Monterey Jazz Festival. It captures the Festival experiences through posters, program covers and rare photographs dating back to the first festival in 1958. The artwork is by such famed jazz interpreters as Eldon Dedini, Ron Grauer, Fernando Batista, Jerry Takigawa, Harry Briggs and Earl Newman. With a forword by legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, this is a decade-by-decade look at the jazz world and the Festical, explored through art and essays reflecting on its history and the music it spawned. ition, book lists every artist who has appeared at Monterey since its inception. Released in celbration of the Monterey Jazz Festival's fiftieth year, The Art of Jazz is an intriguing companion piece to the festival's in-depth history, Monterey Jass Festival: Forty Legendary Years (ISBN 978-1-883318-40-6) by William Minor.