Jazz New York, First Annual New York Jazz Festival, 1956 [Design by Robert Brownjohn]

Jazz New York, First Annual New York Jazz Festival, 1956. Edited by Don Friedman and Ken Joffe, New York, USA. 8.5 x 11, pp. 80 plus illustrated covers. Cover and interior pages designed by Robert Brownjohn.

Program published in conjunction with the First Annual New York Jazz Festival held on Randall’s Island on August 24 and 25, 1956 which included so many greats: Count Basie, Lester Young, Erroll Garner, Gene Krupa, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughn, Gerry Mulligan, Coleman Hawkins, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie and others. “New York City has long been one of the main supporters of Jazz in the country. It is only appropriate that the greatest city in the world should have a great Jazz Festival.”

Articles include: Jazz in New York by Gary Lewis; The Last Time I Saw Yardbird [Charlie Parker] by William S. Brown; Washington Jazz by Paul Sampson; No Coast Jazz by Jerry Berger and Tommy Wolf and Voices of Silence by Nat Hentoff. Additionally, there are (3) superb photographic portfolios by: Chuck Lilly, Carole Galletly and Ken Heyman.

A beautifully designed publication with credits by: Jacques Willaumez, Robert Brownjohn, Ivan Chermayeff, Palumbo/Davis, Robert Parent and Lee Friedlander. The back cover displays a full-page advertisement by Brownjohn for “Jacques Willaumez Associates Incorporated Designers, NYC.” This original item was featured in my book The Moderns (p. 138). 

A very good magazine with light wear to the covers with small chips along the edges and spine and a vertical tear to the upper corner back cover. Residue from glue to the first page. Interior bright and clean!