The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography" has been carefully culled by Lee Tanner the leading authority on jazz photography & photographers & covers more than four decades of performers. If music is an international language then jazz is the unofficial American ambassador to the world. These incredible images are both historical documents & cultural artifacts as they are simultaneously records of a period & works of art unto themselves. The photos Tanner has selected are iconic candid explosive & intimate
- together the book gives readers a unique look at jazz photography & America from 1935-65."