PRESS RELEASE
Media Contact:
Howard Mandel, President,
Jazz Journalists Association
Sue Auclair, President
Sue Auclair Promotions
Photographer Carol Friedman
For Immediate Release:
March 15, 2022
Jazz Journalists Association Presents:
"Seeing Jazz: JJA Photographer Master Classes"
The On Line Series Continues
Saturday, March 25 at 1 PM ET
with Photographer
Photographer CAROL FRIEDMAN, recipient of 2022's Jazz Journalists Association Photography Award, is the next guest on "Seeing Jazz," the Jazz Journalists Association's on-line Photography Master Class, to be held Saturday, March 25, 1 pm ET. This is not just a master class in photography, it's a salon and a world filled with fascinating jazz stories!
In the eighth of the JJA’s monthly, interactive Zoom series presenting major figures of international jazz photography, Friedman will discuss her many years’ experience in music. The event will be hosted by Hrayr Attarian, a JJA-member photographer, and Friedman will alsaccept questions from attendees.
Register here for the 90-minute session, free to JJA members, $10 for the general public. Interactive Q&A is available to all registrants; an archival video of the Zoom will be posted at a later date to the JJA's YouTube channel. Seeing Jazz sessions with Adriana Mateo, Luciano Rossetti, Lauren Deutsch, Marc PoKempner, Nedici “Gagy” Dragoslav, Lou Jones and Stuart Brinin are posted there now.
ABOUT CAROL FRIEDMAN
An avowed jazz fan, portrait photographer and designer Carol Friedman has been documenting jazz legends and their protégés for more than three decades. Her iconic images have been widely published in books and magazines, and appear on hundreds of album and CD covers. She has photographed and designed recording projects for Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis, Dexter Gordon, Lena Horne, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Heath, Shirley Horn, Anita Baker, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Dianne Reeves, Charlie Haden, Quincy Jones, Mose Allison, Bobby McFerrin, Bill Charlap, Sun Ra, Chucho Valdés, and Sullivan Fortner, as well as book covers for the memoirs of Gil Evans, Randy Weston, Jessye Norman, Ron Carter, Bruce Lundvall, Al Green, Albert Murray and Teddy Pendergrass. A collection of her jazz portraits was published in her retrospective, The Jazz Pictures.
As photographer, designer and producer/director, Friedman is working on a variety of music, book and film projects. She recently produced, with Brian Bacchus, Jimmy Heath’s acclaimed last recording, Love Letter, for Verve Records, and is currently editing her film The Music Is The Magic, a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Abbey Lincoln. A preview clip can be viewed HERE.
Jazz artists, in Friedman's view, are "the last bastion of genius, humor and style," and continue to inspire her life and work.
“Seeing Jazz,” which debuted in July 2022 and has scheduled photographers Harvey Tillis, Enid Farber and Fran Kaufman for the coming months -- is one of several JJA productions focusing on jazz journalism through new media formats, channels and platforms.
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast has released 15 episodes since starting in April 2022, downloaded over a thousand times by international listeners (recent programs are interviews with Sonny Rollins biographer Aidan Levy and Willard Jenkins, author of Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story). The JJA’s unprecedented JazzBash! of September 2022 has resulted in more meetings in its unique webspace. The JJA maintains social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instragram and LinkedIn. In 2023, the JJA will hail Jazz Heroes and hold the 29th annual JJA Jazz Awards.
Upcoming Seeing Jazz Masterclass photographers and dates are:
