Jazz-Photography  
                               Jazz
                                                 You need not be a musician
                                                    to understand jazz music.
                                          All you need is a sense for it....

                        To live your life
                        and miss this music --
                        that means
                        to miss one of the best things
                        life has to give.
                        (Art Blakey)

                            Miles Davis
                                              
                                miles davis




                                           Charly Antolini
                                              
                                           charly antolini


                    JAZZ is visual music.
                              You will understand jazz much better
                              if you see how it's played,
                                  since jazz emanates from the body, 
                                  is done with the body,
                                     with the whole body.
                                         You'd do better to see a musician
                                          enthralled in his playing
                                             than to just listen to him.
                                                 (Joachim-Ernst Berendt)




                                                     James Newton
                                              
                                                            james newton




                        Gerry Mulligan
                                              
                        gerry mulligan




                                            Joe Pass
                                              
                                                joe pass


                           Jazz is musical improvisation;
                                     it's the art of the moment.
                                           When recording jazz music
                                        the inspiration and
                        the inventiveness of this moment
                                   are archived with technical aids,
                                          so that you are able to enjoy it
                                     even many years later.

                                   Photography is jazz for the eye.
                                           (William Claxton)




                                                     Howard Johnson
                                              
                                                           howard johnson




                                    Lionel Hampton
                                              
                                       lionel hampton



                    The tones are

                       on the street

                          and on the roofs,

                    on the bodies and pianos,

                      in the pores and diodes,

                            in the lungs and 

                          synapses,

                               in the brains and in

                                    the future,
                      and the jazz musicians


                                       it's they

                         who pick them up.



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