PRINTED FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK, R. PIPER & CO VERLAG MUNICH. The Museum of Modern Art was honored in 1948 in receiving, as a gift of the artist, one of the 100 copies without text of Matisses portfolio Jazz. The complete set of plates has twice been exhibited at the Museum in 1948 and again in the summer of 1960 when a series of jazz concerts was presented Thursday evenings in the Museums sculpture garden. With the gracious permission of E. Teriade the plates in this volume have been reproduced from the 1947 Paris publication of Editions Verve. Of the twenty plates in the original portfolio, sixteen have been selected, with certain pages of Henri Matisses accompanying text. The publisher thanks Mr. Otto StangI who placed the original Verve plates at his disposal for these reproductions. Reproduction rights have been obtained from S. P. A. D. E. M., Paris and Cosmopress, Geneva. The book has been produced by Thormann & Goetsch, Berlin. Published by R. Piper & Co. Verlag, Munich. Piper-Bucherei