The Golden Age of Jazz

"The Golden Age of Jazz"

- photograph by William Gottlieb

"It came out of the dark heart of America,
the aura, the smoke-filled essence of jazz,
the music of joy, abandon, yearning.
New cadences, accents, pulsations.
Nights of improvisation and hot rapturous jazz.
New York's 52nd Street, Swing Street, the mecca.
It was to be William P. Gottlieb who would capture
with his own instrument, the camera, the soul
of this jazz, its voices, its prophets, its players,
Bill who would become the chronicler
of the golden age."

- quote by Eve Berliner, Editor of Eve's Magazine, www.evesmag.com

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