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Summary: An Intimate Look at Music Over Four Decades
Review: This is the book to get for the REAL music fan. Photographer/author David Redfern provides an intimate look back at his career, spanning the 1950s right up to the present (AND the future!). The photographs? Outstanding images, many of the artists in performance and, more often than not, captured upfront and tack-sharp on his medium format Hasselblad. No matter what musical genre you're into you'll find David's been there and captured it: rock `n' roll (the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep), jazz (Miles, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Ella, Monk, Ben Webster), folk (Bob Dylan, Joan Baez), blues and r&b (B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Al Green, Keb Mo), pop (the Osmonds, Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra) and even country (Willie Nelson, Dolly, Johnny Cash). What makes this book so much fun, though, are the related reminiscences that David shares with us (a quick example: on one occasion he accompanied a writer to get pictures of Miles Davis. As David relates in the book, "Miles opened the door, saw me, and shouted, 'Get out!' I smiled nervously and remained frozen to the spot. Suddenly he grinned and said, 'Hi, how are you? Come on in.'"). Whether you're a photographer OR a music aficionado I think you'll find this a great book to curl up with over and over again (and if you just happen to be a shooter AND a music freak, like I am, then this one's a MUST!).
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Summary: An Intimate Look at Music Over Four Decades
Review: This is the book to get for the REAL music fan. Photographer/author David Redfern provides an intimate look back at his career, spanning the 1950s right up to the present (AND the future!). The photographs? Outstanding images, many of the artists in performance and, more often than not, captured upfront and tack-sharp on his medium format Hasselblad. No matter what musical genre you're into you'll find David's been there and captured it: rock 'n' roll (the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep), jazz (Miles, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Ella, Monk, Ben Webster), folk (Bob Dylan, Joan Baez), blues and r&b (B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Al Green, Keb Mo), pop (the Osmonds, Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra) and even country (Willie Nelson, Dolly, Johnny Cash). What makes this book so much fun, though, are the related reminiscences that David shares with us (a quick example: on one occasion he accompanied a writer to get pictures of Miles Davis. As David relates in the book, "Miles opened the door, saw me, and shouted, 'Get out!' I smiled nervously and remained frozen to the spot. Suddenly he grinned and said, 'Hi, how are you? Come on in.'"). Whether you're a photographer OR a music aficionado I think you'll find this a great book to curl up with over and over again (and if you just happen to be a shooter AND a music freak, like I am, then this one's a MUST!).
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Summary: definative music picture collection spanning four decades
Review: With the accent on Jazz and Blues photography, but also spanning popular cultural icons including some classic but little known images of the Beatles and Rolling Stones; it's the story of one man's priviledged insite into the music world. This Sixty three year old 6 foot 4" British photographer, armed with a Hasselblad and press pass, catalogued everybody from Sinatra to Sonny Rollins, both onstage, in the studio, or hanging out in some of the legendary clubs. His textual commentary, loaded with amusing and frank anecdotes, makes a fine companion to the pictures, which speak for themselves. Any visitor to London will find his portraits adorning the walls of the famous Ronnie Scott's nightclub.
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