June 2007 Archives

It has been awhile since we caught up on my current adventures so gather around.

I turned 44 on Tuesday, hence, groovin' in 4/4 time. It was a good birthday. I get really introspective around my birthday but it is always a good time to reflect. What do you get a music/photo/baking geek for his birthday? A new hard drive, of course. I am picking up a new 500GB external hard drive (remember when 20mb was all you needed!!!) to be used for backing up photos and other pursuits. Thanks for all the calls and well wishes. :)

I had the pleasure of meeting and taking a photo with disco/r&b sensation Linda Clifford after her performance on the Main Stage at SF Pride on Sunday. She looked and sounded wonderful. She performed her classics, "Runaway Love", "Red Light" (from the movie "Fame"), and "If My Friends Could See Me."

Guitarist Terrence Brewer is going into the studio this week to record his next album project. I am privileged to take photos of his recording session. I am very excited.

The Fillmore Jazz Festival is this weekend. I will be roaming the festival with my camera on Sunday. There will be lots of great music.

The Color Purple, the musicial, is coming to San Francisco in October. I took my mom to see the Chicago production earlier this month and it was excellent.

I will be taking "Telling Your Story Through Music with Marcus Shelby" at the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco on July 23 and 30 from 6-9pm. Here is a description of the course: "Award-winning Jazz composer and educator Marcus Shelby will guide you through various approaches to creating scores for text, theater and film using examples from his own compositions and the scores of other jazz composers such as Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington."

The Berkeley Jazz Festival is Saturday, July 28 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. This year's lineup includes Randy Crawford, Joe Sample, Rachelle Ferrell, The Original All-Stars of Jazz Fusion, Brian Culbertson, and Najee.

The Capturing The Moment Opening Reception was very nice and well attended. Big thanks to Stewart and everyone at the library for making it a success. Warm hearted thanks to my family and friends for their love and support. Special thanks also to Clairdee for introducing me and to Terrence Brewer and Brandon Essex for providing the music.

This day was definitely the realization of a dream come true for me. Last June, I was shooting the ReNew Orleans Jazz Festival at the Berkeley Public Library and imagined having my photos displayed there. A couple of months later, I met for dinner with my friend Stewart to further discuss the idea. The San Francisco Public Library provides great opportunities for local artists to exhibit their work. After our discussion, the question became "2006 or 2007?" I chose 2007 which provided me with a very interesting challenge. I knew there were photos in my collection that I wanted to include in the exhibit but when you are preparing for an upcoming exhibit, you want to build your collection even more. I selected from about 20,000 photos for this exhibit. I initially selected a set of almost 500 photos. I wanted to make sure I included every festival and concert that I had photographed then I narrowed it down to 50 photos for the exhibit. I am very pleased with the end result especially the spectacular job the library did of arranging the photos for the exhibit.

I was also very excited that the opening reception occurred on Father's Day as it gave me the opportunity to honor the legacy of my father, Ritson Knox. He greatly influenced my love of music and photography.

If you missed the opening reception, not too worry, the exhibit runs through August 16.

Special thanks to everyone for sharing their photos from the opening reception. More photos to come so please check back often. George Kelly provided the photos for the mosaic.

Photosets:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/in2jazz/sets/72157600391014286/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allaboutgeorge/sets/72157600387413062/

http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/fu-hsiang/sets/72157600536413993/

A teaser...., originally uploaded by in2jazz.

I went over to see the exhibit after it was staged on Friday and I was amazed. It was the feeling you get when you hear a new song from your favorite artist. Big thanks to everyone at the San Francisco Public Library for making my dream a reality. Hope to see you at the opening reception on Sunday from 2-4pm in the Latino Hispanic Room on the lower level of the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Free to the public. Come see me dressed up in a suit...ha ha ha!