“The Jazz Loft Project” Exhibition Opens at the Center for Creative Photography
The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965, an award-winning multimedia exhibition of photographs, videos, and recordings of some of the jazz world’s greatest musicians and underground jam session artists, will be presented at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson from Friday, December 14, 2012, through Sunday, [...]
Watch: “Jazz Loft Project” Video with Harold Feinstein, Pioneer Loft Resident
From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. Almost fifty years later, Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson and [...]
The Jazz Loft Project Receives an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
The Jazz Loft Project, a multifaceted photography, audio, and oral history initiative of the Center for Documentary Studies, has been named recipient of an esteemed ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) recently announced the winners of the 42nd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast, and [...]
The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series
Listen to the Jazz Loft Project radio series on the WNYC website. Episode 1: “Introduction” Episode 2: “Images of the Loft” Episode 3: “The Tapes” Episode 4: “Hall Overton” Episode 5: “Before the Loft” Episode 6: “Ron Free” Episode 7: “Flower District” Episode 8: “Monk Town Hall Concert” Episode 9: “More Tapes” Episode 10: “Times [...]
