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Jazz Day

by Roxane Orgill

Illustrator: Francis Vallejo

Ages: 9+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Candlewick Press

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6954-6

Keywords: Music, Photography, Harlem, Diversity

In 1958, 57 musicians gathered together on a Harlem stoop for a photograph to celebrate the Golden Age of Jazz. Spirited acrylics and pastels.