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2024 Rear View – This Photographer’s Year in Music
From the Boss to The Stones, to getting my Third Mind completely blown, 2024 for this photographer, was, if not a feast of a year, then at least one helluva satisfying meal. Whereas most years I’ll look back and find a potent theme, a common…

A Photo Dive Into Newport Jazz at 70
August 2-4, 2024
The Newport Jazz festival is truly the granddaddy of them all as it celebrated its 70th year. It is steeped in the tradition of giants while holding the ears from Gen Alpha on up like no other jazz festival I've experienced.…

A Year In Review Like No Other, Really
It was a classic July evening in L.A. as I rolled my camera case the mile or so up to the Greek Theatre from Los Feliz Boulevard. I was excited to be covering one of Neil Young’s two shows at the Greek as part of a brief West Coast solo tour…

Newport Jazz Festival 2018, Fort Adams, Rhode Island
Music keeps you young. One didn’t have to look further than 92-year old George Wein introducing 80 year-old Charles Lloyd on Saturday to figure that out. Wein, co-founder and patriarch of all things Newport Jazz, was delighted when Lloyd wanted…

Newport Jazz Festival 2016
July 29-31, 2016
Newport Jazz. Coltrane's last performance. History that reaches back to 1954. And, yes, the oldest annual jazz festival in North America is still under the stewardship of founder George Wein for one last year. Newport, along…