PHOTO BACKGROUND:
Trumpeter (name unknown) sitting in with ‘The Teaching’ a Seattle Jazz Quartet. Taken during a set at Lucid Jazz Club, Seattle, WA, October, 2009.
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COMMENTARY:
The second offering in a series of images that I am calling ‘Homage to Roy’.
Excerpt from the original post:
“I had the pleasure recently to take some photos of some of my favorite local musicians at jazz club here in Seattle. The most of the images that I favored are of ‘The Teaching’, featuring Evan Flory-Barnes (Upright Acoustic Bass), Josh Rawlings (Fender Rhodes/Piano/Percussion) and Jeremy Jones (Drum Set/Percussion). I don’t know who was sitting in with them on trumpet….
There are about five or six images from the evening that I think I will share publicly and add to my portfolio. I am calling this series of images ‘Homage to Roy’ in honor of the life and work of one of my favorite and most influential photographers, Roy DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009). While I don’t have the hubris to compare these images to anything produced by DeCarava, I will say that I definitely had him in mind as I was thinking about how I wanted to see as an end product.”
