Lee Tanner

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Lee E. Tanner (born May 28, 1931 in New York City , † September 7, 2013 in Sonora (California) ) was an American photographer .

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Lee Tanner, who grew up in Boston , became a jazz fan at the age of eight and began taking photos as a teenager. He got his first camera at the age of 14. During college, he ran a campus radio show and worked weekends at Sam Goody's record store in Manhattan as a jazz specialist. After graduation, he was drafted into military service in the US Army. After his release in 1955, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania , where he earned a master's degree in metallurgy and materials science in 1958. During this time he started taking photos in local nightclubs in Philadelphia. His role models included the photographs of William P. Gottlieb , Herman Leonard and Gjon Mili .

Tanner then stayed in Chicago for a while before moving back to Boston. There he took photos in clubs and at concerts, as well as in the jazz program of the TV station WGBH. In the late 1960s he produced his own weekly live music program on the PBS TV station called Mixed Bag , which played jazz, jazz-rock , blues and folk . Tanner then moved to New Jersey , where he lived until 1980. He has exhibited his jazz photography in galleries and jazz clubs across the country, including the Jazz Gallery in New York City and Yoshi’s in the San Francisco Bay Area , as well as jazz festivals in Newport, San Francisco and Monterey. He also organized the group show The Jazz Image .

1958 published with the Down Beat for the first time a jazz magazine Tanner's work; This was also followed by a number of photo books under his own name and contributions to album covers, as well as the anthology The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography with contributions by Gjon Mili, Bill Gottlieb, Ole Brask , Herman Leonard and Guy Le Querrec . Tanner's photographs appeared a. a. from 1962 on the covers of jazz albums such as Out of the Afternoon by Roy Haynes , The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 by Miles Davis , The John Coltrane Quartet Plays and The Electrifying Eddie Harris , also on LPs and CDs by jazz musicians such as Cannonball Adderley , Ray Charles , Eric Dolphy , Coleman Hawkins , Freddie Hubbard , Keith Jarrett , Charles Mingus , Thelonious Monk , Stan Getz , Zoot Sims and Joe Zawinul . In 2006 Tanner was honored with the Excellence in Photography Award from the Jazz Journalists Association ; In 2010 he received the Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary . Tanner, who lived in Berkeley for his final years , died in 2013 at the age of 82.

Publications (selection)

  • Lee Tanner's Jazz Photographs / a Book of Postcards. Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco 1990, ISBN 1-56640-404-5 .
  • Dizzy: John Birks Gillespie in His 75th Year. With an Introduction by Jeff Kaliss and an Essay by Gene Lees . Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco 1992, ISBN 1-56640-396-0 .
  • Images of Jazz . Friedman Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 1-56799-367-2 .
  • Images of the Blues. Friedman, New York 1998, ISBN 1-56799-693-0 .
  • The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography. Abrams, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8109-5749-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary in JazzTimes
  2. ↑ Information at the Morrison Hotel
  3. ^ George Chancellor: Lee Tanner: The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography. In: JazzTimes. November 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Lee L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2013
Place of death Sonora (California)