Paul Slaughter

Paul Slaughter (* 1938 ) is an American radio host and photographer , who by particular its Jazz - photographs became known.

Life

Slaughter grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and was influenced by the music of big bands in his youth in the 1940s . In the 1950s he and his family moved to Indianapolis , where he came into contact with jazz musicians such as John Bunch and Leroy Vinnegar through his uncle . In the second half of the 1950s he had acting classes in New York; In the late 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles to seek an acting career, but then embarked on a career as a radio host.

In addition to his own radio show on jazz station KBCA-FM, in which musicians interviewed, Paul Slaughter began to photograph jazz musicians in Hollywood in 1969 and to work for various jazz magazines; for example, recordings by Miles Davis (1969) as well as Sarah Vaughan and Gerry Mulligan (1971) at the Monterey Jazz Festival were made . This was followed by recordings by jazz greats such as Ray Brown , Count Basie , Duke Ellington , Thelonious Monk , Art Blakey , Wynton Marsalis and Dave Brubeck .

He also photographed for various record covers , such as for Carmen McRae's The Great American Songbook and the inside of Miles Davis ' 1974 double album Get Up With It , as well as pop and rock musicians for various record labels such as the Jackson Five or Gary Puckett & the Union Gap .

In the following years Paul Slaughter worked on numerous trips as a photographer for film, television, theater and sporting events such as the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Slaughter also led workshops in his home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico . He published his jazz photographs in 2010 in the illustrated book Paul Slaughter: Jazz Photographs 1969-2010 , on the cover a photo of Sonny Rollins before a concert in 2007.

Web links

• Website (accessed July 22, 2010)
• Photographs (accessed July 22, 2010)
• 2009 interview at Miles Davis Online (accessed July 22, 2010)
• Portrait at Jazzwax (accessed July 22, 2010)