Jazz Power! - L'aventure Jazz Magazine (1954-1974)

Jazz power! retraces in images the first 20 years of Jazz Magazine (1954-1975), a French magazine which worked to develop the representation of black jazzwo.men and more broadly that of the African-American community in France. At the time of the laws of racial segregation in the United States (in force until 1964) and the difficult process of decolonization initiated by France, rarely did French publications put African-Americans on the cover like Jazz Magazine with Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Dizzie Gillespie or John Coltrane...