Santa Cover w/Sun Ra

Scheduled for an early February, 2014 release, Lee Santa's book shares a selection of photographs of an array of famous jazz musicians shot between 1967-2013, in Europe, NYC, California and in the Pacific Northwest.  It documents Mr. Santa's early interest in jazz and photography and their convergence in 1967 Germany, where the photographer was stationed while in the U.S. Army. Lee purchased his first SLR 35 mm camera prior to photographing Dexter Gordon in Copenhagen, Denmark. From there, he followed his interest in photography through schooling in California and into the clubs of NYC, including the Village Gate, the Red Garter (later the Bottom Line) Slug's Saloon, Studio We, and elsewhere.  A first-rate history as well as a collection of photos and jazz anecdotes, this book is a must read and see for jazz aficionados everywhere.  (Book cover:  Sun Ra, the Bottom Line, NYC, 1976).

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