Photographer: Ingrid Hertfelder I captured this image of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra together with the Boys Choir of Harlem in December 2004 during my internship at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where part of my job was to document the rehearsals. I like this shot for a number of reasons. Some of which [...]
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Herman Leonard, 1923-2010
August 15, 2010 – 11:59 am
I am very sad to report the death of Herman Leonard, one of the world’s great photographers, and a longtime friend. Herman moved to New Orleans in 1992, and immersed himself in the New Orleans music scene. He lost his house and some of his work to Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. [...]
Herman Leonard
November 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
A legend in his time – that’s the word for Herman Leonard. Leonard, the photographer whose portrait of Jon Cleary adorns this month’s OffBeat cover, has been immortalizing music greats with his emotionally-imbued, dramatically-lit photos since the 1940s, when his passion for jazz took him to New York’s smoky jazz clubs, with his camera as [...]
