You look at the photo and you can Mingus’ melancholy tribute, ‘Goodbye Porkpie Hat’.
A brilliant portrait need not include the subject; Herman Leonard's portrait of Lester Young.
#portraitphotography #porkpiehat #smoke #light #dodge #burn #essence #presence #absence #HermanLeonard #CharlesMingus #GoodbyePorkPieHat #GeoffDyer #ButBeautiful #Irony #Sweetness #BillieHoliday #jazz
sculpture and plant in the role of Humpty Dumpty
#ephemeral #beauty #bwphoto #bwphotography #fallen #broken #butbeautiful #houseofbeauty #burning #markdoty #celebration #impermanence #line #curve #contrast #zerocrop #ClassicMono
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
—Ornette Coleman
#jazz #theimperfectart #tedgioia #burden #improvisation #ornettecoleman #geoffdyer #butbeautiful
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
💙📚 #ButBeautiful: A Book About Jazz
“Somebody called sentiment unearned emotion but that doesn’t apply to jazz. The emotion is automatically earned because it’s so hard to make the horn sound as gentle as that, to keep swinging and make it pull tears from your heart.” (S.95)
-Geoff Dyer
#Bücher
