jazz trumpet
John D’earth, Jazz trumpet, Free Bridge Quintet
John D’earth has recorded more than 50 CDs. His colleagues in
performing and recording have included Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton,
Miles Davis/Quincy Jones, Tito Puente, Pat Metheny, Clark Terry and
John Abercrombie.
The Free Bridge Quintet is the official faculty jazz quintet of the
University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music.
All the members are leaders in their own right and have performed
nationally and internationally. Most jazz fans know that Free Bridge
contains some of the finest jazz musicians in the country.
They are amazing . Go listen to their stuff.
www.freebridgequintet.com/ (click CD)
www.virginia.edu/music/ensembles/freebridge/index.php
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canardo added this photo to his favorites. (50 months ago)
touchingthelight (50 months ago | reply)
This is great. It has a sense of soul about it, with the graininess and the movement and the negative space. Although he was a sax player, the mood led me straight to Art Pepper ...
bcg~art (50 months ago | reply)
Thanks, Ken. I really like this picture, am very happy with it. (Connects also with my remembering sitting there listening to them... in a tiny [handful of people] venue). Makes me most happy that you 'got it' as well !
I know of Art Pepper, but dont have anything by him, amongst the small collection of jazz stuff I have.
andymag (49 months ago | reply)
Really interesting. Amazeing to crop out the face above the point of contact between the instrument nand the mouth concentrates on the music. Has intense mood and works really well.
I have lots of musician friends and generally find it very challenging to photograph performances,capturing the dynamics and mood in the inevitable low light.
Garry Corbett (49 months ago | reply)
I think this has real atmosphere - it would make an excellent album cover or book jacket I think...
Garry Corbett added this photo to their favorites. (49 months ago)
bcg~art (49 months ago | reply)
Thanks Andy and Gary, so much.
In this case, the low light played to my advantage - I really like grain and blur for evocative type images. Not to say that I planned this, because I didn't. I'm not methodical, but more reactive and intuitive and in the post-shooting " what can I find in this?" mode. And I find that fun. Great fun - full of discovery. I was a graphic designer for many years, so see? I even left room for the type on the right of the 'cover' idea!!! ;-) Wasnt thinking that way at all obviously, but perhaps it's meshed in my subconscious. ( I like negative space too. ) Every graphic designer dreams of doing album covers, instead of corporate annual reports............. perhaps I should send it to the Free Bridge Quintet, though it only features John !
philippa. (49 months ago | reply)
clever you, splendid imge, and it does have soul.
love the motion blur.
Bahman Farzad (49 months ago | reply)
a nice capture.......
touchingthelight added this photo to his favorites. (49 months ago)
Erasmus T (48 months ago | reply)
Very nice, and I like the grain. Ken pointed me here after seeing mine in a similar vein:
www.flickr.com/photos/erasmus_t/2609073084/