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Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this date in 1685.

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Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins in a classic session.

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On my list.

Jazz Through the Lens of Herman Leonard

Don’t miss this summer’s New York exhibition of the jazz photography of Herman Leonard: one of the greatest photographers of the art form. Details and more of Herman Leonard’s photos here.

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Ray Charles: One Of The Greatest Live Performers

Ray Charles was a recording genius and also one of the great live performers with a great band that included saxophonists Hank Crawford, David Fathead Newman and Leroy Cooper and the Raelettes. This Newport 1960 concert includes Titus Turner’s “Sticks And Stones’.

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Duke Ellington would have turned 114 today.

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Herman Leonard’s Classic Photograph Of The Mind And Hands Of Art Tatum

In a review of “Smoke & Light: The Jazz Photos Of Herman Leonard At The Monterey Jazz Festival, 2001” it was said of Leonard’s images that “…the camera and its art are invisible. The musical reality, the human subject, takes precedent” and that “…the many musicians who became his subjects both lend their charisma to his art and take from it a heightened personal stature”. Take for example this photo from 1955 of Art Tatum which is available through Morrison Hotel Gallery. Although it is not an image where the artist is actively performing, Leonard captures Tatum’s reflecting or possibly listening. This image differs greatly from others of Tatum and indeed is one of the few posed pictures by Leonard who said of this shot, “…I wanted his wonderful hands, not his eyes, to be the focal point.

-Scott Wenzel

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Martin Luther King on the Importance of Jazz

Jazz means many things to many people. As is its essential nature, it connects uniquely and directly to each person. But it also holds some universalities. In his opening address at the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, the brilliant Martin Luther King touched upon those aspects of the music, most perceptively that modern jazz is “singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence.”

-Michael Cuscuna

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Miles Davis: Photos of a Jazz Giant in 1958

This is a real find! Thirteen previously unpublished photos of Miles Davis and the sextet that recorded Kind Of Blue at Birdland, shot by Time-Life photographer Robert W. Kelley. It’s amazing how much continues to be unearthed on the great giants of jazz.

-Michael Cuscuna

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LESTER YOUNG

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Lee Morgan, Trumpet

Most stories I’ve read about Lee Morgan seem to fixate around his death.  I’ve always been more interested in his time spent playing with Mobley, Coltrane, Golson, Elvin Jones, Blakey, and such.   In my opinion, Morgan is one of the most talented and least celebrated artists in jazz music.  There has been much talk about the upcoming Miles Davis movie, starring Don Cheadle, but the movie I’d REALLY like to see is the one about the life of Lee Morgan.  As my good friend Atane likes to say Lee Morgan is….Essential Listening.

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It's Don Cherry's birthday today.

The musicians:

Don Cherry, trumpet;

Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone;

Charlie Haden, bass;

Ed Blackwell, drums

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