Author Archives: Thomas Jacobsen

Lionel Ferbos: The Century Mark

On Sunday, July 17, the incomparable Lionel Ferbos will be one hundred years old. In order to maintain his chops, he still practices his horn from 45 minutes to one hour every day. Musically, Ferbos goes back to another time, that critical formative era when jazz as we know it was beginning to take shape. [...]

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Herman Leonard, Jazz (Bloomsbury)

While a legend before he moved to New Orleans in 1991, the late Herman Leonard (1923-2010) did not achieve that legendary status as a jazz photographer until later in life. It was not until 1986—we are told in an introduction to this handsome volume by his friend, novelist Reggie Nadelson—that Leonard (then 63) received “the [...]

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