I knew his son, Ariel, before I knew Jovino Santos Neto. Ariel was a student, in 1999, in a prestigious program, the Urban Newspaper Workshop, conducted by The Seattle Times, where I worked at the time. During the grueling interview session for the workshop, Ariel mentioned that his father was a jazz musician. I knew …
Category: The Arts
Performance Art: Jazz
I met a mother of a jazz drummer last night during the amazing performance by Thomas Marriott and Joe Locke at Tula's and, as I was explaining my enthusiasm for photographing artists in performance, realized that a lot of my jazz work is not present on this blog. So I'm rectifying some of that. (NOTE: …
My Best of SIFF 2013
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) ended two weeks ago, I know, but I gave up six weeks of my life to the festival and had some catching up to do! SIFF started a little rough for me, as I was embroiled in an effort to get SIFF to release a privacy policy for data …