CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/6/2017

In honor of the Newport Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall

In honor of the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend, we are proud to feature Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival, gathering 600 black-and-white photographs from the Newport and Monterey jazz festivals of the early 1960s. Onstage, backstage, in the audience, outside on the lawn and around town… most of these un-styled, unself-conscious photographs have never been published before, and they offer a unique window into a moment in American history when creativity, optimism and activism combined to be so much more than the sum of their parts. From Thelonious Monk, to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie (pictured here with Lalo Schifrin at the 1961 Monterey festival), this book oozes historical cool.