Sittin' in : jazz clubs of the 1940s and 1950s / Jeff Gold.

New York : Harper Design, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2020.

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 21 x 24 cm

"Sittin' in brings to public view for the first time a rare collection of more than two hundred souvenir photographs and memorabilia from the most renowned jazz nightclubs in America in the 1940s and 1950s. In an era of segregation and Jim Crow laws, jazz nightclubs across the country were among the first places where Black and white people mixed in audiences and onstage. These remarkable images, detailed histories of each club, and first-person testimonies from those who performed and visited these seminal venues are your ticket inside an extraordinary world that gave root to change and greater personal expression, both musically and socially."--Back cover.

Sitting in

English

February 16, 2021

Includes bibliographical references (page 257).