Vintage Jazz Poster Scrap - Yasushi Ide

Vintage Jazz Poster Scrap by Yasushi Ide / 376-page paperback, 6 x 8.25 inches, published by Grand Gallery (Japan) / bilingual Japanese/English (though it is 99% images) / ISBN 9784991160523

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This installment of Yasushi Ide’s Scrap series shines the spotlight on jazz. The publication focuses on original vintage posters, from flyers to booklets, calendars, and magazines covering past performances of jazz musicians and music in Japan. Ide began this process by searching for materials for his autobiographical book, ‘Rolling on the Road’, and the majority of the items in the collection were gathered by him over a period of about eighteen months. The volume offers a meticulously curated, kaleidoscopic view of the visual language of jazz through his eyes, serving as a useful reference for fans of the artists, labels, music, and design while also being purely entertaining.