MIRAMAR – The Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark and The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University has added new photos to the year-long exhibition All that Jazz: Photographs of Jazz Legends, which is on display in the Ansin Family Gallery at the Miramar Cultural Center through May. The exhibit celebrates the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century.
Photographs of Max Roach, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, Timmie Rosenkrantz and Earl Hines join images of jazz icons Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Quincy Jones in the exhibit which includes work by William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard and Jerry Stoll, some of the genre’s best known photographers.
Gottlieb’s work can also be found in the Library of Congress and has appeared in newspapers, television documentaries, magazines, museums and on more than 250 CD covers. Called “the greatest jazz photographer in the history of the genre” by President Bill Clinton, Leonard’s photographs are a unique record of the jazz scene of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s with 155 original prints on display in the Smithsonian Museum’s permanent collection. Stoll gained fame in the San Francisco Bay Area for his work as the resident photographer for the Monterey Jazz Festival from 1958 through the mid- ‘60s.
The photos on display are donated from the Library of Congress and Miami resident and long time art gallery owner Barbara Gillman.
This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.MiramarCulturalCenter.org or call (954) 602-4500. The gallery is open Monday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark is located at 2400 Civic Center Place on Red Road, north of Miramar Parkway, in Miramar. Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/MiramarCulturalCenter and on Twitter @MiramarCultural.
Photo credit:
William P. Gottlieb (American, 1917-2006)
Portrait of Lena Horne, New York, NY, between 1946-1948
Digital print from high resolution scan of 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ inch black and white negative
William P. Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress
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About Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark
The Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark is a collaborative effort of many who share a fundamental commitment to the arts as essential to building a strong and vibrant community. The project is funded in part by Broward County through the Broward County Board of Commissioners with proceeds from 2000 Safe Parks & Land Preservation Bond. The Center also acknowledges the support of the State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.