Here’s my new JLP blog entry about my experience trolling the iTunes Celebrity Playlists this week in Boston.

See my new blog entry on the Jazz Loft Project site about pianist Sonny Clark including a photograph of his first grade class in Herminie No. 2, PA, 1937-38.  When I’m done with my Gene Smith biography I’ll write something extensive on Clark.

Last night I went to Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill to hear Rosecrans Baldwin read from and talk about his new novel, You Lost Me There. I ran into our friends Philip and Linda Carl there.  Philip, a molecular biologist, immediately began talking about one of Gene Smith’s photographs from the 1955-57 Pittsburgh series.
The photo [...]

Next March I’m heading to Japan and the Pacific to research Gene Smith’s work during WWII and the time he spent documenting Hitachi (1961-62) and Minamata (1971-74).  Iwo Jima is opened to civilians only one day per year and the next time will be March 16 so I’m planning around that.
In preparation for that trip [...]