Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Life Goes to a Jazz Party: Photography and the Politics of Swing
Setting the Stage: A Tale of Two Parties
“Swing,” Segregations, and Peterson’s Satchelmouth
Jammin’ at Gjon’s: Mili’s Trio of Jazz Photo-Essays
2 Picturing Bebop: Dizzy Gillespie and the Postwar Jazz Image
Dizzy Gillespie, the Bebop Image, and Life
Jazz Seen and Unseen: William Gottlieb, Bebop, and Down Beat
Herman Leonard, Metronome, and the Iconography of Jazz
3 Jazz Man/Pop Star: The LP, Miles Davis, and the 1950s
Columbia, the LP, and Jazz
Miles Davis and the Art of the Album Cover
The Package Evolves: Porgy and Bess to Someday My Prince Will Come
4 Sonny Rollins and the Art of the Independent Record Labels
Jazz West Coast: William Claxton and the California Image
Sonny Rollins’s Way Out West
Selling Hard Bop: Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside
5 Roy DeCarava’s Jazz: Fine Art, Black Art, and the 1960s
Edna Smith, The Family of Man, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life
A Photographer’s Gallery, Kamoinge Workshop, and Race in Jazz
The Jazz Photographs: John Coltrane and The Sound I Saw
Coda: Dark Rooms, Open Spaces
Notes
Index