Dave Grusin Santa Fe 2009 © Paul Slaughter
Dave Grusin, Academy Award winning composer, peforming at the
4th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, Lensic Theater, Santa Fe.
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Photographs by Paul Slaughter
Paul Slaughter
Joys of Jazz
"I began to listen to jazz at age 15, in the fifties, introduced to the sounds by my Uncle Charlie Mastropaolo, an accomplished drummer. As I grew older I found the sounds of jazz were not only joyful but had a healing effect. In the late sixties I had a gig as a disc jockey on KBCA-FM in Los Angeles, an all-night jazz station. I programmed my own shows and did interviews with the greats of jazz. At the beginning of my photographic career I was fortunate to photograph the up and coming jazz musicians, as well as those established icons of the jazz world like Dizzy, Duke, and Miles. I find jazz and photography are both powerful and visceral forces in furthering unity and understanding."