'Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and life to everything.' Plato
'There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks
and there’s the way I like to play, which is dangerously, where you’re going to
take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t
created before.'
Dave Brubeck
Jazz photographer Herman Leonard, who died on Aug. 14, 2010, photographed many of the greatest music stars of the 1940s and '50s.
Leonard was known for the smoky, backlit scenes he captured
of musicians in performance.
In 1948, Leonard moved to New York City and immersed himself
in the jazz scene. He made deals with club owners to photograph rehearsals in
exchange for prints they could use on their marquees.
Leonard said his intention was "to create a visual
diary of what I heard, to make people see the way the music sounded."
Later in his life, Leonard moved to New Orleans, where he
continued to photograph jazz musicians. Though much of his work was destroyed
in the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, his negatives were saved and
housed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
After the tragedy of Katrina, Leonard went through all his
negatives and compiled a collection of the best images he could find, alongside
some of his well-known classics. A book of the resulting 320 images, called
Jazz, is set to be published in October 2010.
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| Frank Sinatra 1958 |
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| James Moody, 1951 |
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| Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, 1948 |
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| Dizzy Gillespie, 1948 |
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| Duke Ellington,1958 |
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| Dexter Gordon, 1948 |
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2011462_2178533,00.html
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