Bob Willoughby

Enter the "Bob Willoughby - Jazz: Body and Soul" Book Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Quayside Publishing “Bob Willoughby - Jazz: Body and Soul“ book giveaway contest starting today. We'll select TWO winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 12th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Ella Fitzgerald at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Quayside Publishing About Jazz: Body and Soul With a foreword by legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, American photographer ...
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Classic Jazz Artists In New Book By Renown Photographer Bob Willoughby

Source: Steve Roth
July 24, 2012

Bob Willoughby was one of the great photographers of classic Hollywood and its stars; his photos throughout the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were seen in Look, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. Willoughby was also a jazz lover who took hundreds of photos of the burgeoning California Jazz scene and its most pivotal and innovative magicians. For the first time these amazing photos documenting his passion for the music are lovingly chronicled in Jazz: Body and Soul published this week in the ...
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Bob Willoughby: 'Body and Soul'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 16, 2012

Photographer Bob Willoughby was a friend of JazzWax. Before his death in December 2009, we corresponded about a book idea he was shopping around from his home in Vence, France. Bob and I first became acquainted when I asked him for the story behind his famous photos of tenor saxophonist Big Jay McNeely performing at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1951. What knocked me out, in partcular, was the euphoria on teens' faces as they listened in ecstasy ...
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Bob Willoughby (1927-2009)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 30, 2009

Bob Willoughby, a West Coast photographer whose candid images of celebrities in the 1950s portrayed the thrill and exhaustion of stardom and whose photos of Big Jay McNeely, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday and other jazz musicians captured their profound commitment to the music, died on December 18th of cancer at his home in Vence, France. He was 82.

Bob was a fan of JazzWax and kindly allowed me to use his images of Big Jay McNeely when I interviewed the ...
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