Exhibition: Jazz Power, at the Arles photographic meetings
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Singer Billie Holiday with musicians Lester Young (left), Coleman Hawkins and Gerry Mulligan during the CBS TV show "The sound of jazz" on December 8, 1957 in New York City.
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By: Isabelle Chenu Follow
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Jazz Power is the title of one of the exhibitions of the Arles photographic meetings this summer.
In the 1950s, a team of enthusiasts led by Daniel Filipacchi and Franck Ténot created the monthly
Jazz magazine
and decided to put on the front page the African-American stars of jazz, a highly political music in the midst of the struggle for civil rights in France. United States.
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The French, whose country was then engaged in a difficult process of decolonization, discover for the first time on the front page of the black faces but also the lives and the fights of these legends of jazz music like Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday or Dizzy Gillespie.
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