Monterey Jazz Festival : Forty Legendary Years
Monterey Jazz Festival : Forty Legendary Years
Mid-fifties San Francisco. A jazz critic and a jazz disc jockey sit for hours philsophizing about the music they know so well. A west coast jazz festival -- that's what the world needs. Something that will show people the meaning of jazz. Real jazz. By 1958 it is in place.
The Monterey Jazz Festival. Forty legendary years ago; four historic decades ago.
Today the Monterey Jazz Festival, the dream of radio man Jimmy Lyons and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ralph J. Gleason, is synonymous with the finest music the world of jazz has to offer. Scores of performers. The known. The unknown. Three September days full of sound emanating from the California town John Steinbeck called "a poem ... a habit, a nostalgia, a dream." And while today's Festival is a dream-come-true for any jazz lover, its history is rich with drama, humor, catastrophe and success, a collage of emotion, compromise and risk-taking. And in these pages, every aspect jumps off the page in words and glorious black-and-white photographs.
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