Jazz

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"""See how he makes Nat Adderley appear to levitate at the music stand, or the side-by-side placement of a pair of photos of Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge, in which Schapiro’s use of focus all but transmits the sound of the two veterans trading lines with each other. Even in quieter moments, his lens gets to something at the core of his subjects, whether that’s Miles Davis leaning in to listen to his lawyer with an intimacy that’s at odds with the “Dark Magus” legend, or Sonny Rollins looking every inch the saxophone colossus in a shadowy Apollo Theater stairwell."" ""There are countless highlights among the 300 images collected here – chosen from a reported 20,000 negatives – but the space given to undersung female talents such as vibraphonist Terry Pollard and pianist (and ex-wife of Louis Armstrong) Lil Hardin Armstrong deserves special mention, as does Richard Scheinin’s accompanying text, which riffs like the music Schapiro’s work celebrates.""" - Record Collector
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"""The Late Sax Master Sonny Rollins on Steve Schapiro’s Forgotten Photos of Jazz Giants."" ""The work captured the vibrancy of the Manhattan jazz scene in the early 1960s—all chronicled by the 20-something Schapiro."" ""The best of those images, revealed here for the first time, appear in the new book Jazz (ACC Art Books), with photos selected in part by his widow, the filmmaker Maura Smith Schapiro, and son Theophilus Donoghue, a photographer, and text written by Richard Scheinin with an afterword by Kurt Elling. Herewith, an homage to Schapiro and his jazz heroes by the saxophone master Sonny Rollins, who died this week at age 95, on the eve of the book’s June publication.""" - Vanity Fair
Photobook Weekly featured Jazz. - Photobook Weekly
"One of the leading social documentary photographers of the 1960s, Steve Schapiro’s images stand among the most important of the 20th century. These largely unknown jazz photos – shot just before his career breakthrough – showcase his early mastery and his empathy for his subjects, making Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions an essential archive. In the early ’60s, when Schapiro arrived on the scene, New York jazz was enjoying a golden age. A young freelance photographer who had grown up in the Bronx and somehow snagged a gig with Riverside Records, he began voraciously documenting shows, players, venues, recording sessions and gatherings both in his native New York and later in Chicago. Whether it’s Sonny Rollins lifting weights backstage, or Bobby Timmons lost in an instant of discovery at the piano, Schapiro was on their wavelength." - Old Jewish Men
"""Most fascinating about the new book is we get to see our favorite jazz artists in human situations—waiting, reading, napping, lifting weights and more."" ""Why should we care? Because these artists were exceptional, and the images give us a finer sense of their personalities, who they were off stage and at rest. Every single image in this 315-page hardcover, coffee-table book offers a fresh perspective of artists we thought we knew well from photos on album covers."" ""Leafing through the book was like looking at the images beamed back to earth by the astronauts who recently circled the moon. We know the moon is round and pocked with asteroid craters. But seeing the back side for the first time gave me chills. It didn’t look much different than the moon’s face we see all the time, but it was the moon without makeup on, the one napping in the back. As with the other side of the moon, this book shows us a new, unseen side of famed jazz musicians, and all provide us with a greater sense of their humanity."" ""The images also show us the love these musicians had for each other and the joy they felt playing this music. In many ways, Steve Schapiro was William Claxton East. All of the musicians he photographed were cool. His images make them even cooler.""" - Jazzwax Substack
"""History hiding in plain sight for 60 years."" ""The photographs are remarkable because they are so unguarded. Schapiro had a gift for capturing people at their most natural.""" - WBGO
"""Schapiro’s stunning images of jazz greats in New York – from Dizzy Gillespie to Elvin Jones – make up a new book featuring a foreword by late saxophone icon Rollins."" ""As social documents, Steve Schapiro’s images stand among the most important of the 20th century, covering Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others. These largely unknown photos of the New York jazz golden age showcase his mastery and empathy for his subjects. A new book collects them, alongside a foreword by the late saxophone icon Sonny Rollins Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions is published by ACC Art Books.""" - The Guardian
"""But before his career took off in 1963, Schapiro was a struggling freelancer who obsessively chronicled the New York jazz scene. We now have Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions (ACC Art Books), which includes 300 of Schapiro’s stunning and intimate photos."" ""But before his career took off in 1963, Schapiro was a struggling freelancer who obsessively chronicled the New York jazz scene. We now have Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions (ACC Art Books), which includes 300 of Schapiro’s stunning and intimate photos.""" - Jazz Times