JAZZ
Gallery | Dave Douglas At Jazz Standard, Jeff Siegel, Steve Swell,
Gebhard Ullmann, Lou Donaldson, Donald Harrison, Freddie Redd, and Eric
Reed. Check out the Jazz
SLIDESHOW.
"A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't
answer your question try to question your question. There are clever
questions and stupid answers as well as stupid questions and clever
answers. There can be questions without answers but no answers without
questions. To be or not to be — that is the question. To see or
not to see — that is an answer."
Among its various projects, Pix4notes is publishing a collection of
specialist theme books. These books, in 5 x 4 inch format, feature the
works of contemporary photographers taken either from photo assignments
that have been published by the press in their entirety or from their
individual research projects.
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March 1 — June 30 "The Thirty-Six Unknown" ·
Color Photographs · Todd Weinstein, New York, NY ·
"The Thirty-Six Unknown" · Photography · Todd
Weinstein, New York, NY · Shot at locations like Dachau, Auschwitz,
Berlin, and Jerusalem, the images in "The
Thirty-Six Unknown" are a meditation by photographer Todd Weinstein
on the Talmudic notion of the thirty-six righteous people that are required
for the world to exist. Exhibited in galleries around the world, "The
Thirty-Six Unknown" makes its first appearance in the Southeast
with this show at the National Humanities Center.
youtube.com: The 36 Unknown · In
later Kabbalistic folklore, the thirty six hidden ones have the potential
to save the world, they appear when they are needed, and one of them
might be the Messiah. They come at times of great peril, called out
of their anonymity and humility by the necessity to save the world.
Because they can, and because we need them.
Empire State Building Company agreed to coat the top of
New York’s famous landmark in black, red and gold from the weekend
September 14 through to 16. It’s been a while that Germany was
so visibly present on New Yorks spectacular skyline.
The lighting of the Empire State building in the German
colors at the Steuben Parade expresses the strong ties of friendship
and unity between the United States and Germany."
"Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer
SATOKO FUJII as one of the most original voices in jazz.
A truly global artist, she splits her time between New
York City and Japan and tours internationally leading several different
ensembles.
Just as her career spans international borders, her music
spans many genres, blending jazz, contemporary classical music, and
traditional Japanese folk music into an innovative synthesis instantly
recognizable as hers alone."
"Anyone complaining about the lack of 'something
different' hasn't heard the music of Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and
her husband Natsuki Tamura. Their sounds are a potent mix of passion
and calculated madness." — Jazz Central Station | Please
visit Satoko Fujii myspace site: myspace.com/satokofujii
> Dear Friends, I am so happy to share with everyone an interview
[Double Life] I had with Natalie Kestecher who found me via the Internet.
I found Natalie to be a wonderful person to work with. She has put so
much into her radio show talking about the Thirty-six righteous
beings, the lamed vav tzaddikim, keep the world turning, according
to Jewish tradition. If they didn't exist there would be greater strife
in the world than there already is, yet we don't even know who they
are. Natalie is working with ABC
Radio National Radio Eye from Australia. I am honored to be apart
of her project. I hope you enjoy the radio show. — Todd Weinstein
Radio producer Natalie Kestecher speaks to rabbis, mystics,
scholars, and to photographer Todd Weinstein about the idea and, while
it appears that it can be interpreted in a multitude of ways, Natalie
finds that she is seeing these beings in the most unlikely places. Sound
engineer: Russell Stapleton. Presenter: Brent Clough. Producer and writer:
Natalie Kestecher.
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CD cover photography for 'New York City Songs' · By Denny Brown.
[In association with onclicknyc.com,
CD cover photography and cover design download
pdf] | "Detroit born, Denny Brown, has been a songwriter and
singer for over two decades. Since his early days studying guitar with
reverent Gary Davis and Doc Ross, he wanted to be what his is today,
a dynamite singer and accomplished songwriter. In the early seventies,
he was an active participant of the synthesis of folk and rock. Denny
was a regular performer at New York's Gaslight Cabaret, opening
shows for the best New York had to offer, people like Muddy Waters,
Bonnie Raitt, and John Prine. He also recorded an album with Bukka White
for Victoria Spivey. Since those days Denny Brown has been working on
his collection of songs. This man's warm intimate presence shines through
on his urban rock and roll songs that reflect his energy range
and intelligence." — dennybrown.com
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JAZZ Gallery | Photography for JVC Jazz Festival at Town Hall (New
York), Down Beat Magazine, Dave Douglas At Jazz Standard, Jeff "Siege"
Siegel, Steve Swell, Gebhard Ullmann, Lou Donaldson, Donald Harrison,
Freddie Redd, Nina Simone, Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, Bradford Marsalis,
Cesária Évora, Marc Ribot, Eric Reed. Check out the Jazz
SLIDESHOW.
"If jazz means anything," Duke Ellington once
said, "it is freedom of expression."
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide
where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and
jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between classical music
and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line." — Duke Ellington
The show is at the New York Public Libary running April
26 until September 16 (Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 212-869-8089).
| Among the "names" in the current exhibition are Saul Leiter,
Graciela Iturbide, Arthur Leipzig, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, Todd Weinstein,
Aaron Siskind, Louis Stettner, Bill Aron, Dawoud Bey, Rebecca Lepkoff,
Ed Grazda, Peter Hujar, Roy Colmer, Abelardo Morell, Larry Fink, Bruce
Gilden, and Jeff Mermelstein. This is an impressive list.
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CD cover photography for 'Originals' · The Lee Shaw Trio.
[In association with onclicknyc.com]
| "As the title indicates, the disc eschews standards in favor
of a deep inspection of Shaw's own portfolio, mixing newer material
with compositions from as far back as 1980. It's a coin flip why past
and present dovetail so well here: Either Shaw has always stuck by her
creative guns, or everything comes out great when the triumvirate of
Shaw, bassist Rich Syracuse, and drummer Jeff 'Siege' Siegel. Then again,
there's nothing that says it can't be both. My love of back-story aside,
the short anecdotes Shaw provides for each tune illustrates the openness
of her creative process, not to mention her ability to translate her
reaction to stimuli into musical terms and (as she frequently says here)
let the song write itself. [...]" continue
reading J. Hunter's review ...
> World & I [Magazine] The Legend of the Thirty-Six ·
Text by James Stone Goodman; photography by Todd Weinstein ·
World & I: Innovative Approaches to Peace, A publication of the
Universal Peace Federation (UPF) January 2007. World & I is published
by the Universal Peace Federation as a forum to foster human development,
good governance, public service, and collaborative peace efforts involving
religions, nations, and non-governmental organizations. Envisioning
peace as a state of harmonious interdependence among individuals, families,
nations, and peoples, the World & I advocates constructive and original
practices that contribute to achieving a unified world of peace, the
hope of all ages. Please read the entire text online at www.worldandi.net.
> The Cronicle: Spirit of resistance now on display [pdf] ·
By Raymond Baldino [The Cronicle NJ, 02/16/07] "Works by artists
Marius Sznajderman, Jerzy Bitter, and Todd Weinstein, on exhibit at
the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck until Feb. 25, showcase the spirit
of resistance during The Holocaust. The series of photographs, wood-cuts
and paintings commemorate the struggle to survive even under the darkest
conditions and includes art addressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of
1943."
Exhibition: The Righteous · Resistance During the
Holocaust · Paintings, drawings and prints by Marius Sznajderman
and Jerzy Bitter, and a new photographic series by Todd Weinstein. Free
and open to the public. Normal gallery hours: M – F, 1 –
5:00 p.m. or by special appointment. Group and student tours also by
appointment.
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CD cover photography for 'Meaning and Mystery' · Dave Douglas
Quintet · "Meaning and Mystery is the third
album from the Dave Douglas Quintet and first for the Greenleaf
Music label. It follows 2004's critically-acclaimed Strange
Liberation and 2002's Grammy-nominated The Infinite in
building upon, and establishing a modern living jazz quintet music."
— greenleafmusic.com
The Brooklyn Museum marks the five-year anniversary of
September
11, 2001, with an exhibition of works from the permanent collection
that includes paintings, photographs, prints, and drawings of the Lower
Manhattan area around the World Trade Center site before, as well as
after, the attack. The pix4notes
book #2 [pix4notes Publishing, Paris, France] is part of this exhibition.
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American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. · Environmental
Portraits Fall 2006 | "My Photo of Grace" · I was asked
to photograph Grace Mayer for a lifetime achievement Golden Light awards
she was going to receive. I called her up and set up a time to meet
at the Museum of Modern Art here in NYC. We met in the MoMA lobby, and
we talked about how we would make the photographs. We decided on photographing
outside in the MoMA sculpture garden. She mentioned, she always wears
a hat when she goes outside.
She went back up to her office to get her hat. When she
returned, it was perfect. Its was to become a very special element for
my photograph. We went out to the garden and walked around. I asked
Grace to sit down in front of the Alexander Calder sculpture. She said
she loved Calder and felt very comfortable. I realized Grace was so
much a part of the environment, I knew this would be the photograph.
We became very good friends for years until her death in December 22,
1996. | LINK: www.asmp.org
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Sunday, October 15, 2006 2-6 pm · STEVE
REICH @ THE WHITNEY · A Celebration of the Composer's seventieth
birthday at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Steve Reich
(*1936) Composer; Philosophy student at Cornell University 1953-57,
Juilliard School of Music 1958-61 (composition with Bergsma and Persichetti),
and Mills College, Oakland, 1961-63 (composition with Luciano Berio
and Darius Milhaud). Worked with San Francisco tape music centre 1963-65,
then established his own electronic studio in New York City and formed
his own ensemble, Steve Reich and Musicians, 1966, with which
he achieved international fame and success. Though influenced to some
degree by African and Asian traditional music, his works deal exclusively
with very gradual changes in time Pendulum
Music [mp3], tape-loop techniques It's Gonna Rain
and Come Out, pattern Drumming, New
York Counterpoint [mp3], phase shifting Six
Marimbas [mp3], Four
Organs [mp3], the traditional Jewish song Tehillim,
and Proverb
[mp3].
"A performance for us is a situation where all the
musicians, including myself, attempt to set aside our individual thoughts
and feelings of the moment, and try to focus our minds and bodies clearly
on the realization of one continuous musical process." (Steve Reich)
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LIVE from the NYPL | Sep 27, 07:40 PM The New York Public Library:
ROBERT
FRANK in conversation with Howard Norman: Beirut Saturday, September
30, 2006 at 7:00 PM Celeste Bartos Forum.
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Workshop with Ostkreuz Schule (Berlin) students, New York City,
May 2006 > GALLERY 2006: I have been hosting and teaching a
group of students from the Ostkreuz Schule based in Berlin,
Germany to explore New York City, meeting photographers, artists studios,
museums, magazines, and galleries throughout the city. I also assign
a project theme for the students during there New York City visit.
I organized a class trip workshop to Italy. We are in
the planning stages for doing workshop trips to other counties as well
as continuing the annual New York workshop.
Ben-Zion house · Magnum · Marc Asnin ·
Mel Adelglass · Peter Norrman · Steve Zehentner ·
Andres Serrano · Aaron Anderson · Duane Micheals ·
Edwynn Houk Gallery · Howard Greenberg Gallery · International
Center of Photography · Jay Maisel · Jim Salzano ·
Ken Horowitz · Stephanie Berger · Thomas Hoepker
