Mid-fifties San Francisco. A jazz critic and a jazz disc jockey sit for hours philosophizing 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. 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. Scoresof 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. A special four-color gatefold featuresselected Monterey Jazz posters. In Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, jazz journalist William Minor tells the story of the oldest, continuously performed jazz gathering in the world, the story of forty weekends of jazz that welcomed the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Carmen McRae, Janis Joplin, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis and Joshua Redman. Photographer and photo editorBill Wishner has collected more than one hundred fifty rare images of the performers and performances that have highlighted the Festival over nearly half a century. Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years includes a complete listing of all musicians who have performed on the Monterey stages from 1958 to 1997. This is the definitive history of the Festival that defines jazz. "

The 56th edition of the Monterey Jazz Festival is Sept. 20 - 22, 2013, with a Friday afternoon kick-off. Here is a close look at the Monterey Jazz Festival when it started in 1958 and 1959, the oldest continously running jazz festival in the world. More pictures not shown in the Preview from 1959 and 1965 with close-up action pictures of the great musicians of that day that have a place in the music world as the Jazz Greats of the day. The festival is held every year in September. These are images that were taken by Sam and Jim Vestal, California news photographers that remained active from the 1950's to the present day. Some of their photographic works are just becoming available for collectors as photographic archival prints or canvas giclees for jazz enthusiasts today.

The first major rock music festival and the precursor to Woodstock, the Monterey International Pop Festival was an unprecedented gathering of pop, soul, jazz, and folk artists who took the stage one luminous weekend during the “Summer of Love.” On the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June, 1967, the sleepy California coastal community of Monterey played host to the now-legendary concert. In its aftermath, the world of popular culture was transformed forever. The ’60s were now upon us with a soundtrack, a style, and a political and social sensibility all its own. A Perfect Haze is the official history of this glorious festival. With the endorsement and support of producer Lou Adler and the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation, the sights and sounds of the festival come to life in this extravagant compilation of photography, memorabilia, and first-hand accounts by musicians, fans, crew members, and others who attended the concert. To read its pages is to step back in time to the moment of rock’s big bang, when Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and dozens more set the stage on fire—both metaphorically and, in one iconic instance, literally! Dozens of musicians and others associated with the festival have been interviewed exclusively for the book, including Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Bob Weir, Ravi Shankar, D. A. Pennebaker, Andrew Loog Oldham, Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, and Al Kooper, as well as members of Jefferson Airplane, the Association, Moby Grape, and Canned Heat. A Perfect Haze is packed with hundreds of photographs taken both in front of the stage and behind the scenes, including works by such notable artists as Henry Diltz, Elaine Mayes, and Nurit Wilde. Festival programs, posters, advertisements, album covers, and other ephemera—most of which has never been seen before—are also included, provided by Lou Adler, the festival’s nonprofit foundation, collectors, participants, and fans who attended the event. Even more than Woodstock, the Monterey International Pop Festival was the epicenter of a youthquake whose aftershocks continue to reverberate throughout our 21st-century culture. A Perfect Haze evokes this magic event in all its kaleidoscopic glory.

In The Art of Jazz, moted music and culture writers Keith and Kent Zimmerman celebrate the historic images created to promote and memorialize the Monterey Jazz Festival. It captures the Festival experiences through posters, program covers and rare photographs dating back to the first festival in 1958. The artwork is by such famed jazz interpreters as Eldon Dedini, Ron Grauer, Fernando Batista, Jerry Takigawa, Harry Briggs and Earl Newman. With a forword by legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, this is a decade-by-decade look at the jazz world and the Festical, explored through art and essays reflecting on its history and the music it spawned. ition, book lists every artist who has appeared at Monterey since its inception. Released in celbration of the Monterey Jazz Festival's fiftieth year, The Art of Jazz is an intriguing companion piece to the festival's in-depth history, Monterey Jass Festival: Forty Legendary Years (ISBN 978-1-883318-40-6) by William Minor.

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

Jim Marshall is known as the defining father of music photography and his intimate photographs of the greats of Rock & Roll, Country, Folk, Blues and Jazz are legendary. Renowned for his extraordinary access and ability to capture the perfect moment, his influence is second to none. In 2014, Marshall became the only photographer ever to be honoured by the Grammys with a Trustees Award for his life's work. Published here for the first time ever are Marshall's jazz festival photographs from the 1960s. Over 95% of the material in this breathtaking coffee table volume.