Cover  Image Henri Matisse JAZZ A Collection of Paper Cut-outs

To create Jazz, Matisse carefully arranged twenty cut-outs as compositions. Like the musical genre they celebrate, the works are at once spontaneous and unified, improvisational yet clearly orchestrated. Serving as a complement to these blasts of color are messages, in Matisse’s own handwriting, of his ideas and inspirations. The resulting book is one of the twentieth century’s most significant works of art. Katrin Wiethege’s introductory essay delves into the artist’s method of creating the cut-outs in his studio as well as the painstaking process of printing the book itself. Exquisitely made to resemble the color, printing technique, and paper of the first hand-crafted edition of the book, this volume features Matisse’s unforgettable images and words in all their original splendour.Info Source

I have chosen to bring you Putumayo’s JAZZ alongside Henri Matisse’s collection of paper cut-outs to give you a feel of the burst of colour, energy and warm spirit that is distinctively JAZZ. I am a big fan of Jazz myself. Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, the list goes on…and there’s always new talents rising, new styles brewing. Just like the nature of Jazz..according to trombonist J.J. Johnson in a 1988 interview, “Jazz is restless. It won’t stay put and it never will.”
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