Jazz ─ New York in the Roaring Twenties

It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New York’s jazz scene in the 1920s, complete with an accompanying CD containing some of their best tunes. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jurgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the “bandbattles,” as well as the legendary recording sessions. A splendid read, a groovy CD—and not strictly for jazz fans only!

Awards for the original German edition:
- European Design Award 2008 for Layout, Stockholm
- Institute for Book Arts 2008: “The Most Beautiful Book of Germany”, Frankfurt
- Illustrative 2007: “One of the Most Beautiful Books of Europe”, Berlin