Jazz Day
The Making of a Famous Photograph

Some books for kids have a hard road ahead of them. Here’s a secret. If you want a book to sell just oodles and oodles of copies to the general public, all you have to do is avoid writing in one of two specific genres: poetry and nonfiction. Even the best and brightest nonfiction books have a nasty......more

A poetic look at the making of a famous photograph. The well-written introduction gives readers all they need to be able to appreciate the project Art Kane took on in dreaming up this photograph. The poems themselves take readers into the sights, sounds, and feels of the set that day in August 1958......more

This is the famous photograph, Harlem 1958, the topic of this picturebook: I love the concept of Jazz Day (i.e., its successful attempt to recreate the day the famous photo was taken). And the amount of research that was put into this project simply amazes me. The clever, mostly free verse poems and......more

I can't convey strongly enough how much I love this book. The text is wonderful, pictures, illustrations-just perfect. I am thrilled that children will be learning more about such amazing icons of jazz. Btw, Jazz Day should have many top awards bestowed upon it.......more

Music historian and children's author Roxanne Orgill takes a look at the creation of the famous photograph, "Harlem 1958," in which fifty-seven jazz musicians gathered in Harlem for a photo shoot for a special supplement of Esquire Magazine, on 'The Golden Age of Jazz.' Using mostly free-form poetry......more