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WNYC's Fishko Files: Jazz Photography

Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
From: WNYC
Length: 00:07:10

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A recent exhibition of classic jazz photographs in New York inspired WNYC’s Sara Fishko to talk about the art of photographing jazz with a couple of it’s most admired practitioners. Here is the next Fishko Files...

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Jazz Photography script

At a downtown gallery in New York on a recent Thursday night, I stood in a crowd, transfixed my still pictures of Miles Davis taken by various photographers. Davis was maybe as interesting to look at as he was to hear. He’s always a draw. But old jazz photos in general are magnetic, partly because they take you back, says one member of the crowd.

Crowd member: ... the moodiness, the intensity...I have a nostalgia for something I missed, this was like the heyday, you know...

What people think of as the heyday of jazz was just as alluring for the photographers who documented it. After all, they started as jazz fans themselves.

Herman Leonard: I was a teenager. We had no television or anything like that. We had the radio, but jazz on the radio was not very available at the time because there was no audience for it.

Photographer Herman Leonard grew up in a...
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Title Artist Album Label Year Length
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One Alone Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz Diz and Getz. Verve 2001 03:01
Piano Improvisation No. 3 Duke Ellington Piano in the Foreground. Columbia/Legacy 2004 02:46

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