Esquire's World of Jazz

224 pp. Color photographs and illustrations tipped in, black-and-white images in text. "From the outset of its publishing history, Esquire Magazine involved itself with jazz. In its pages, such gifted writers as E. Simms Campbell, Nat Hentoff, Leonard Feather, Budd Schulberg, Paul E. Miller, John Clellon Holmes, Chas. E. Smith, George Frazier and Ralph Ellison frequently brought the vibrant story of jazz to the magazine's readers. Jazz stars such as Louis Armstrong, George Wettling, and Dizzy Gillespie wrote personal accounts of their colorful experiences from Storyville to Minton's. And even Leonard Bernstein borrowed its pages to engage in controversy with Gene Krupa, the former insisting that jazz influenced the symphony while the peripatetic drummer rejected the idea outright. All of this and much, much more is contained within the pages of Esquire's World of Jazz together with perhaps the most stunning collection of jazz photographs, paintings and sculptures ever included in one volume. Such talented artists as Larry Rivers, Bruce Mitchell, Ben Shahn, Burt Goldblatt, Philip Evergood, William King, Henry Markowitz, Jay Maisel, Art Kane, Lou Lomonaco, Tomi Ungerer, Charles Stewart, Charles Peterson, Stephen Colhoun and Robert Andrew Parker are represented in magnificent reproductions."