Jazz Musician Picture of my Jazz Calendiary 2007 , JazzPrezzo Verlag Germany , In the 50s and 60s, Joachim Ernst Berendt's foto calendars were extremely popular. The Jazz Calendiary could become just as popular, this time not as a wall but as a desk calendar. The handy sized and easily to turn over book contains black and white photographs of the photographer Detlev Schilke on its left side, one for each week, and enough space on the right side for notes about appointments , thoughts or...
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Jazz Musician Picture of my Jazz Calendiary 2007 , JazzPrezzo Verlag Germany , In the 50s and 60s, Joachim Ernst Berendt's foto calendars were extremely popular. The Jazz Calendiary could become just as popular, this time not as a wall but as a desk calendar. The handy sized and easily to turn over book contains black and white photographs of the photographer Detlev Schilke on its left side, one for each week, and enough space on the right side for notes about appointments , thoughts or whatever. The pages are made of thick paper, nice to write on, yet high quality and glossy for the pictures. It starts with Junior Cook at the JazzFest Berlin in 1990 and ends with Woody Shaw at the Leipziger Jazztage 1987, and in between you'll find many big and not so big names from the jazz scene of the late 80s up to today. Gary Lucas sits with his guitar in front of a jumble of cables and pedals, Joelle Léandré's shadow plays into a microphone, Dietmar Diesner turns his saxophone around, Peter Kowald listens to his own bass notes (and he does it twice), Aki Takase relaxes and smokes a cigarette as does Lester Bowie (but a cigar), Joe Lovano tries out his mouthpiece, Bill Dixon does the same with his trumpets, Archie Shepp thinks, Tomasz Stanko tests his clip-on microphone, of Von Freeman we just see his instrument and his suspenders, of Markus Stockhausen just his trumpet, Regina Carter and Carla Kihlstedt play the violin, Michel Portal and Richard Galliano the accordion, and Wadada Leo Smith plays trumpet while at the same time controlling the electronics using a foot pedal named "Cry Baby". Enough photos to get through the year, and to remember that even the gray days can be beautiful with jazz. And I am sure that in the year 2008 some of these excellent photos can be found in frames on many walls. (Wolfram Knauer, JazzInstitut Darmstadt), [ Photographie copyright (c) Detlev Schilke / detschilke.de , Postfach 35 08 02 , 10217 Berlin , Germany , Mobile/Cell.: +49 (0)170 3110119
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