Art Design : CAMERAS Series by Tom Sachs : Hasselblad Leica Nikon

Tom Sachs est un artiste plasticien américain né à New York en 1966.

Il vit et travaille à New York. La dénonciation des travers de la société américaine, la société de consommation, le poids des entreprises, l’impérialisme culturel américain, le progrès technologique, l’identité et le rapport entre survie et destruction sont au cœur de son travail, qui procède le plus souvent par l'assemblage d'objets du quotidien et l'utilisation détournée de marques et de logos immédiatement reconnaissables.

For many years, a small but significant part of Sachs’s production has dealt with cameras. This exhibition brings together twelve works, from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, perhaps more importantly, chart the course that photography and the globalization of precision manufacturing has taken over the past century.

Tom Sachs Link

New York City Ballet Season 2010-2011 by Henry Leutwyler

Teresa Reichle, Stirling Hyltin, Sara Mearns NYC Ballet

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Krohn New campaign for the New York City Ballet, January 16 2011

During his nearly 50-year career, Dave Holland has appeared on, he figures, roughly 200 albums.(AFP Photography)

Jazz bassist Dave Holland is known for the lyricism of his playing, for his mentoring of younger players and for his humility as a bandleader. 

Holland began his career in England as a teenager and moved to the U.S. on the promise of a gig with Miles Davis. 

Since then, he's stayed put on these shores, developing a solid career as a jazz bassist's bassist and releasing a prodigious stream of albums.

Dave Holland Octet Pathways JazzTimes - April, 2010

As Holland has done in virtually everyone of his previous bands, he provides a platform for his Pathways colleagues to realize an individual and collective sense of purpose and cooperation. The resulting spirit of generosity, of selflessly yet emphatically serving each composition, pays off from start to finish on the seven song album (fine penned by Holland), which Edit clocks in at over 75 minutes but doesn't contain a single extraneous note or gesture. Miles and Mingus would be proud.

Produced by Dave Holland Personnel: Antonio Hart (Alto Sax and Flute), Chris Potter (Tenor Sax and Soprano Sax), Gary Smulyan (Baritone Sax), Alex "Sasha" Sipiagin (Trumpet & Flugelhorn), Robin Eubanks (Trombone), Steve Nelson (Vibraphone and Marimba), Dave Holland (bass), Nate Smith (drums)

The album was recorded live at New York City's Birdland jazz club. Holland returned to New York’s Birdland - the site of Extended Play, his last live album - to record this latest effort.

Dave Holland Octet Pathways

 

Says Holland, 

" I had always loved the sound of the Duke Ellington small groups, often with a five horn front-line plus the rhythm section. The combination of two brass and three saxes gives access to a wide range of textures and colors and allows a composer to evoke the sound of a big band or create the more intimate sound of a small group. I also wanted a project that would include at its core my regular working quintet and build the music around what we had already developed as a small group."

My Octet's debut recording, Pathways, comes out at the end of March [3/23] but I actually formed the group in 2001 for a tour of Britain that was sponsored by the British Arts Council.  I had always loved the sound of the Duke Ellington small groups, often with a 5 horn front-line plus the rhythm section. The combination of 2 brass and 3 saxes gives access to a wide range of textures and colors and allows a composer to evoke the sound of a big band or create the more intimate sound of a small group.
I also wanted a project that would include at it’s core my regular working quintet (Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson, Chris Potter, and Nate Smith) and build the music around what we had already developed as a small group.  The additional horns gave me some different compositional options but equally important, the personal sound, style and creative approaches of Antonio Hart (alto), Gary Smulyan (baritone) and Alex Sipiagin (trumpet) add a great deal to the creative mix.
For those that have followed my recording career, know that I often revisit compositions I have recorded at different stages in my career.    Over the years, one of the things that has changed is my approach to playing them. Writing the song is just a starting point and after that the improvisor develops different ways of interpreting it. There are some compositions that seem to remain relevant and that continue to evolve. On Pathways, I chose two older pieces, "Shadow Dance" and "How's Never?" The former was on Jumpin In', my debut recording with my first working band over 25 years ago. The latter I first played with the Gateway trio with Jack DeJohnette and  John Abercrombie.

"How's Never"

Extrait (13"03min.)