The Color of Jazz
"The best of Turner's classic album photographs are  gathered in his third monograph, The Color of Jazz (Rizzoli, $45), which  includes a foreword by music legend Quincy Jones and an afterword by Creed  Taylor, who recorded jazz greats from Charles Mingus to Wes Montgomery.  Concurrent with the book's publication, the George Eastman House museum in  Rochester, New York, will be the venue for an extraordinary  retrospective..." --Sep 06 AMERICAN PHOTOPictures from his five-decade career, with their stunning colors  and abstract compositions have appeared in magazines like Esquire and Look,  but his work might be best known to an audience with a different focus:  Jazz." "The photographer's generous, enthusiastic captions detail  the behind-the-scenes creative production, which in the case of art is  often fascinating..." --Dec06 NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"With almost a hundred displayed in the distinctive Turner  range of glorious, glowin gcolors, and with meaty captions that hold little  anedotes about each one, The Color of Jazz is a great tribute both to this  prolific photographer, as well as the stellar musicians whose albums got a  well-needed boost in sales by having a Pete Turner photo on the cover. --Mar07 COMMUNICATION ARTS"On August 23, 2006, I had the wonderful opportunity to  interview legendary color photographer Pete Turner. There are few  photographers who leave such a powerful, lasting and unforgettable  impression in any genre of photography." --03/01/07 RANGEFINDER-- "two iconic jazz labels from the '60s and 70's were the  subjects of two impressive books, both of which had the fingerprints of  Jazz Times contributor Ashley Kahn...An oversized coffee-table book that  celebrates the colorful photos used most famously for the covers of Creed  Taylor's CTI record label." --Jan07 JAZZ TIMES MAGAZINE