————————————————————————— <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sun Ra himself; the only man in the world with a passport declaring his birthplace as “Saturn.” (TRUE) Someday I will blog my own Sun Ra stories, which are pretty funny.<\/p>\n —————————————————————————<\/p>\n Keith Jarrett, solo piano concert, Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, 1972<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shot with a 300 mm telephoto lens. I was very worried that Jarrett would hear the camera clicking; he was known to stop playing and cancel concerts if photographers bothered him. So I stayed far away! I heard him perform a few years ago with a trio, but I didn’t enjoy it at all.<\/p>\n —————————————————————————<\/p>\n Master drummer Bob Moses, Cambridge, MA 1972<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was also shot with a 300 mm telephoto lens. In those days the available long lenses simply wouldn’t let in very much light, so even with the film speed pushed to four times normal, there was no way I could use any but extremely slow shutter speeds, like, say, 1\/4 of a second. A drummer moves a lot<\/em> in that amount of time…but the image is effective because of the blurring.<\/p>\n —————————————————————————<\/p>\n Pianist McCoy Tyner, Jazz Workshop, Boston, 1975<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was able to talk with McCoy between sets and got a few pictures of him simply relaxing. He puts out a lot of energy when he plays; on the breaks he was extremely gracious.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Getting images like this was incredibly rewarding. I was climbing all over the place looking for angles, and these really came out well.<\/p>\n ————————————————————————— I love photographing musicians \u2014 probably because I’m a musician myself, and it’s a wonderful challenge to capture some of the immediacy of live performance on film. There have been two times in my life when I was really active in music photography. \u00a0Once in the mid-1980s when I was living in India, and had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[20,22,21,19,17,1331,1332,18],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-music","tag-bob-moses","tag-john-mclaughlin","tag-keith-jarrett","tag-mccoy-tyner","tag-mingus","tag-music","tag-photoblogging","tag-sun-ra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mingus-023.jpg\")
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\nCharles Mingus and George Adams<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCharles Mingus<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMingus, George Adams, Jack Walrath. This was the band that recorded the “Changes” albums; what a terrific group of players! I idolized Mingus and still regard him as one of the greatest American composers ever.<\/p>\n
\nSun Ra and his Arkestra, Jazz Workshop, Boston, 1975<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
\nJohn McLaughlin, with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra \u2014 Orpheum Theater, Boston, 1972, and Boston Common, 1973.<\/strong>
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\nI recently found these images and sent a few of them to McLaughlin’s management; turns out he has very few pictures from those days, and I was able to fill a gap in his documentation. That felt nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"