Jeff Gold

"Sittin' in brings to public view for the first time a rare collection of more than two hundred souvenir photographs and memorabilia from the most renowned jazz nightclubs in America in the 1940s and 1950s. In an era of segreation and Jim Crow laws, jazz nghtclubs across the country were among the first paces where Black and white people mixed in audiences and onstage. These remarkable images, detailed histories of each club, and first-person testimonies...