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Jazzlife : a journey for jazz across America in 1960 / William Claxton, Joachim E. Berendt.

by Claxton, William.

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Köln ; London : Taschen, c2005.

Jazz -- Pictorial works.

Jazz musicians -- United States.

Jazz musicians -- United States -- Pictorial works.

3822830666 (English) :

695 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 42 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

From spirituals to soul music -- From the Sea Islands to the Berklee School -- New Orleans -- Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola -- Memphis -- St. Louis -- Kansas City -- Big bands -- Chicago -- Hollywood and Los Angeles -- San Francisco, Monterey and Las Vegas -- Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. -- New York City -- New York: Harlem -- New York: Traditional and mainstream -- New York: Avant-garde -- New York: The Village.

[CD] Oh Lord send me peace (choir & congregation of St. John's Baptist Temple) -- Reverend Newton preaches (Rev. Newton, St. John's Baptist Temple on the South Side of Chicago) -- Singing spirituals in Zachary, Louisiana (Rev. Thomas and Mrs. Thomas with Butch Cage, violin) -- Gabriel shout (Star Spiritual Singers of Coastal Georgia, St. Simons Island) -- Three for all (Berklee School Big Band, Boston) -- Just a closer walk with Thee (Eureka Brass Band) -- Time Lord (Sister Elizabeth Eustis, vocals) -- Draws trouble blues (George "Creole Blues" Guesnon, vocals, guitar) -- Electric chair blues (Guitar Welch, vocals, guitar) -- Jesus cares (Murray Macon, vocals) -- High society (Alphonse Picou with the former Papa Celestin New Orleans Band) -- It's a long way to Tipperary (Paul Barbarin and his New Orleans Jazz Band) -- Jack O'Diamonds (Brother Percy Randolph, vocals, harmonica) -- I lost my heart (Armand Hug, piano, with the Emile Christian New Orleans Band) -- Babblin' (Carmell Jones, trumpet, with Frank Butler, drums, Frank Strazzeri, piano, and Jimmy Bonds, bass) -- Little fugue (Roland Kirk, saxophone, manzello, stritch) -- Spoiled your baby (Shakey Jake, vocals, harmonica) -- Number Nine (Roosevelt Sykes, vocals, piano, with the Jump Jackson Band) -- Two blues choruses (Ira Sullivan, trumpet) -- Blow low (Buddy Tate, saxophone, and his Harlem Band) -- Night train (Cootie Williams, trumpet, and his Central Ballroom Band) -- Walk on (Sonny Terry, vocals, harmonica, and Brownie McGhee, vocals, guitar) -- Tenor saxophone improvisation on "Soft lights" (John Coltrane, saxophone, with Paul Chambers, bass, and Art Taylor, drums).

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