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Jazz Loft Project

Smith wrote 139 names of jazz musicians on his partial, haphazard tape labels: famous stars like Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Roland Kirk, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, and Lee Konitz, along with underground legends like drummer Ronnie Free, bassist Henry Grimes, drummer Edgar Bateman, multi-instrumentalist Eddie Listengart, and saxophonist Lin Halliday, as well as many unknowns.

The project culminated in late 2009 with a book, a radio series in collaboration with WNYC Radio in New York, and a traveling exhibition which opened at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in February 2010 and will move to the Chicago Cultural Center in July 2010, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in February 2011, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego May 2012, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona through March 2013.

The Jazz Loft Project, directed by Sam Stephenson at the Center for Documentary Studies in cooperation with CCP and the Smith estate, is devoted to preserving and cataloging the works of photographer W. Eugene Smith.



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