Photo: Ania Sodziak
The music video I made for the spectacular marching band Mucca Pazza debuts today on the All Songs Considered blog.
Thanks to Cynthia Main for the sumptuous set design, and Nancy Bardawil for the gorgeous backdrop painting.
Last Thursday I shot the above picture at The Burlington in their excellent new music room. Pictured is Gregory Jacobsen performing with his ensemble called Lovely Little Girls. Jacobsen is also a very gifted painter. Below is proof sheet detail from a 2001 Lovely Little Girls shoot we did for the Reader.
I recently photographed Scott Lucas and The Married Men at a parking garage near their practice space. The pictures will be used as album art for their soon to be released record, Blood Half Moon, as well as for promos. In lighting this shot I was thinking about films noir I’ve watched recently, like Asphalt Jungle and Naked City.
Last November I met John Grabski III, who was in town recording an album (as “Teeth”) with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. I was planning on waiting until the record was pressed to post the photos, but I just heard the terrible news that he died (I’m not yet exactly sure when–sometime in the last few days). He had long known that he had cancer and didn’t have long to live, but nonetheless this came as a shock. I was looking forward to meeting him again and talking to him about the finished record. I only spent a couple hours with him but he made quite an impression in that short time. The record, called “The Strain,” is here.
Last night a group of enthusiastic and fabulous Soul Train fans gathered on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park to pay tribute to the show’s host, Don Cornelius, who died yesterday.
Last October I photographed the legendary saxophonist Von “Vonski” Freeman for The Reader; here are a couple outtakes. I shot him before and during a set at the fabulous, historic Green Mill. Special thanks to Green Mill owner Dave Jemilo for being gracious and hospitable despite (because of a miscommunication) not knowing a photographer was coming that night.
My friend Mike Finch directed, edited, and stars in Rob Crow‘s (Pinback) new music video, So Way; I shot it. It debuted yesterday on the Rolling Stone blog, but the resolution is better at Mike’s Vimeo (below).
Trumpeter Nate Wooley, shot in Brooklyn on October 11th, just before he played a gig with Canada Day. This is for a series I’m doing on imrov musicians. I’ve been loving shooting at night with only available light–challenging but fun. Here his main light is coming from a storefront window. More NYC pictures soon, been (thankfully) working like crazy.
