The passing of photographer Dennis Stock earlier this year (at age 81) inspired me to dig out my copy of a now 50-year-old volume, published by Doubleday in 1960. Looking through these black-and-white photographs is like seeing old friends again, though so many of those pictured — and now their chronicler, too — are gone.
In 1982, Ralph Pomeroy wrote… [read more]
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957 – 1965
By Sam Stephenson
Alfred A. Knopf, and Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2009;
288 pp.; $40 hardcover
When W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) moved into his storied loft in New York, he was already a superstar of the photographic world… [read more]
How has JazzFest Berlin changed in the last 20 years, since the wall came down? Not all that much, and this is basically true for all of the festival’s 45 years. That’s OK, because its founders pointed it in the right direction in the first place, long before I ever got there. I’ve been lucky — or deranged — enough… [read more]
To the editor:
Concerning the October 16 Associated Press item on Wynton Marsalis being awarded France’s Legion of Honor:
This was pretty straightforward in classic AP style, mentioning that other American recipients have included Renée Fleming and Barbra Streisand.
Fleming and Streisand are fine artists both, but: Am I the only who found unfortunate and glaring the omission of such… [read more]
Text, captions and photos by Patrick Hinely
All images ©2009 by Patrick Hinely, Work/Play®
Officially formed last year, the trio of saxophonist Ohad Talmor, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Adam Nussbaum does not tour often, and U.S. performances are especially rare. Part of the original plan for this one-night-only gig in New York over Labor Day weekend 2009 was to… [read more]
