Immortalized jazz geniuses – The Universal

With over 150 photographs of the most famous performers of jazz , as Mile Davies, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker, the Circle of Fine Arts today introduced the exhibition “Jazz Jazz Jazz” in a cycle including film and music.

In the series “Jazz Now!”, the exhibition highlights the photographs made great masters lens as Esther Bubley, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, Arthur Liepsig, Wayne Miller, Bob Parent, Charles Peterson, Lee Tanner and Ed Van Der Elsken., among others

Also watercolors and photographs of Hermenegildo Sabat, Uruguayan artist, nationalized Argentine, who has a gallery in Buenos Aires, where there was already presented in this exhibition.

Sábat, known for his close as Menchi, highlighted the interest in jazz among young and the keen interest that survives by gender, while regrettable that this exhibition can not be images of Spanish photographers around jazz.

The exhibition is curated by Jorge Mara, also a gallery, who said the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate, celebrate music, and said the photos have exposed more than artistic documentary value.

“In the photo of jazz musicians, the singers, instruments, what matters to us most is the documentary aspect, the atmosphere, the environment, “he said.

In addition, the selection of the exhibition is about the musicians and instruments interpreting, not so much in the quality of each person, or other considerations.

The photographs in the exhibition “Jazz Jazz Jazz”, which can be seen starting tomorrow at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, were made in the 40s and 50s, the golden age of jazz, breakes, improvisations, blue notes and a lot of smoke.

Through pictures you can feel the magic that distilled clubs then, and accompanied by drawings and watercolors Sábat, author of several books on jazz.

In the words of writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, perhaps because he was born of a mutual spread of diverse music and worlds, jazz has more a century spreading to other music, other arts, passing them, appropriating, infiltrating surreptitiously, as a species invasive but also benevolent that instead of impoverishing fruitful.

The Jazz are the songs and West African rhythms brought to the Caribbean and South America by slaves and music bands between martial and festive coming from Europe, and the refinement of chamber music of the Creoles of New Orleans lounges with anxiety . Social status in a no man’s land increasingly inhospitable between black and white

The Jazz are drums and Havana, the work songs and chants pagan ceremony and church; the African call and response singing and long melodic lines of the biblical psalms and sermons of the preachers.

Under the cycle Wednesday announced within the concerts will be in January quartet Mexican Hugo Fernandez Cosmogram , the second and most recent work, a compendium of jazz, pop, rock and classical music.

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