"If you’ve hung around Open Culture long enough, you’ve heard said that 1959 was a watershed year for jazz—the year of modal classics Giant Steps and Kind of Blue, 'harmolodic' masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come, and the forever cool Time Out and Mingus Ah Um. Sixty years later in 2019, these experiments and confident leaps forward continue to mark pivotal moments in modern music—moments documented heavily by the photographers who gave the albums their inimitable look. To celebrate that year in musical breakthroughs and photographic near-perfection, sportswriter and jazz history 'superfan' Natalie Weiner has launched a blog called The 1959 Project. ..."
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The 1959 Project (Video)
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