Orgill, Roxane. Jazz day: The Making of a Famous Photograph.

Orgill, Roxane.  Jazz day: The Making of a Famous Photograph.     Candlewick Press  2016  np  $18.99  ISBN 978-0-7636-6954-6        elem/ms  Nonfiction  E-BN  

Art Kane, a graphic designer, was behind the creation of a photograph of jazz greats that is known as “Harlem 1958”. Through a series of poems that are beautifully illustrated, the author recreates the events and participants in the day. Kane decided to have the picture taken in front of a brownstone in Harlem, and the photo shoot, including 58 musicians, lasted four to five hours. The final photograph featured the internationally famous -- Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie -- as well as those who were only known within jazz circles. Biographies of the more famous participants and a list of additional resources are included. This book is highly recommended for poetry and music collections.

Summary: Poetry and beautiful illustrations capture a day in Harlem in 1958 when jazz greats were photographed together.

Jazz, Photography, Poetry                                   --Stephanie Pennucci

VanHecke, Susan Raggin╙ Jazzin╙ Rockin╙

VanHecke, Susan. Raggin╙ Jazzin╙ Rockin╙  

Boyd's Mills      2011  129p  17.95   978-1-59078-574-4  

ms/hs             E-BN  

This book discusses the origins of eight musical instruments that are vital to American jazz and rock music.      

The scholarship in this book is astoundingly good ... lots of detail on the origins and evolution of eight popular instruments, including the piano, the guitar, the electric guitar, the Moog synthesizer, drums, the Hammond organ, and the cymbals. 

In each section, the people who invented and developed these instruments leap

off the page as interesting, intelligent individuals, each of whom had a vision

and the willingness to work to make that vision a reality.  The photographs and

diagrams are very instructive and match the text perfectly.  The side-bar

commentary adds a great deal as well.  Notes, source notes, web sites and photo

credits are included, along with a useful index.

The ways in which historical realities affected the livelihoods of these musical inventors and entrepreneus -- immigration, wars, the Great Depression, illness, marriages -- will show young readers that some of the things we take for granted today represent years of hard work and sacrifice on the part of people like ourselves.     Kennedy, Carol