Jazz

Ed van der Elsken's Jazz is a photographic record of jazz history that captures the spirit of the music through a series of portraits. The book features prominent jazz figures, including Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Lee Morgan, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie [1]. The photographs, presented as 79 photogravure plates, were captured using Leica cameras and Leitz lenses [2, 3]. Published in 1959 by De Nederlandse Boekenclub in Den Haag, this first edition was accompanied by texts from a group of authors, including Jan Vrijman, Hugo Claus, Simon Carmiggelt, Friso Endt, and Michiel de Ruyter [2, 4]. Ed van der Elsken also provided the cover design and the layout of the photograph section [2, 4].