“Well designed and printed, a coffee table book as weighty as its subject”
“A lavish new book”
“Jazz is about being present, and Jim Marshall knew how to get close to people and be present”
“A deeply atmospheric snapshot of the times”
“You can almost feel the sun's warming rays and an ocean breeze emanating from Jim Marshall's evocative photographs in the book.”
“Marshall's shimmering photographs of those lazy summer days when the giants of jazz mingled with the crowd won't be seen as just a celebration of their music. It'll be the epitaph for an era.”
“Jazz is about being present, and Jim Marshall knew how to get close to people and be present”
“The first in a series of volumes from Marshall's archive, and demonstrates the photographer's rare talent for handling composition, exposure and depth of field.”
“A lavish new book ”
“Jazz hipsters had their own, timelessly stylish take on the Ivy Look, which still has many lessons to teach us, in this much-less-hip future we now inhabit.”
“With each page, Marshall's photographs turn common music moments into milestones. ”
“He was chronicling a brief utopian moment amid the gathering storm of protest and often violent reprisal that would define the civil rights era of the early-to-mid 1960s.”