Swinging Gotham
Big City, big bands: New Yorks jazz scene of the 1920s
Its the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famousCotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New Yorks jazz scene in the 1920s, complete with a CD containing some of their best tunes. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jrgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the band battles, as well as the legendary recording sessions. A splendid read, a groovy CDand not strictly for jazz fans only!
Awards for the original German edition:
- International Book Award, 2014, Los Angeles
- International Design Award, 2014, Los Angeles
- Joseph Binder Award, 2014, Vienna
- D&AD Award, 2014, London
- Good Design Award, 2014, Chicago
- A Design Award, 2014, Como/Italy
- Best American Infographic, 2014, New York
Awards for the original German edition:
- European Design Award, 2008, Stockholm
- Institute for Book Arts: The Most Beautiful Book of Germany 2008, Frankfurt
- Illustrative: One of the Most Beautiful Books of Europe 2007, Berlin
