Jazz Photography In and Around DC
Michael Wilderman has been living and
photographing
in the Washington DC area for 35 years and has documented artists
local and associated with DC, and jazz activities unique to the nation's capital.
DC's First Lady of Jazz, Shirley Horn and
her Trio with special guest Buck Hill - Charles Ables on bass and Steve Williams on drums. |
Buck Hill, April 25, 1992
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Buck Hill and Webster Young at the Kennedy Center, November, 1994
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Keter Betts, February, 1997 |
Singer
Mary Jefferson with Andrew White on electric bass and guitarist Bill
Harris at Charlie's Georgetown back room. |
National Treasure Awards at Cap City Festival Kickoff-September 22, 1988 John Conyers,Jr., Bill Harris, Benny Carter and Roy Haynes |
Dexter
Gordon and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. at a
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President
Clinton and the Jazz All-Stars at the 1991 Inaugural Ball - with Hillary
Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Illinois Jacquet, Al Grey, Wayne
Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Jr., & Clark Terry.
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Danny Barker, Buck Clayton and Clark Terry receiving the NEA Jazz Masters Awards January 31, 1991 |
At the announcement of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Scores David Baker, John Conyers, Jr., Roger Kennedy, and Gunther Schuller John Hasse on right in second photo April 24,1991 |
Congressional Black Forum Jazz Awards to Jon Hendricks (September, 2000) and James Moody (September, 2004) |
Smithson Awards to Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Jones, and Benny Carter November 30, 1990 |
Dave Brubeck receiving Congressional Award from Eleanor Holmes Norton, September, 2005
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Rehearsal
at Wolf Trap for Salute to Dizzy Gillespie, 1987 with Sam Rivers, Arnie Lawrence, David Amram, Jimmy Owens, Diz, and Walter Davis. |
Billy Taylor at Wolf Trap, July 6, 1980
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John Malachi at Wolf Trap, June 21, 1981
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Frank Wess at Wolf Trap, June 21, 1981
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Sir Roland Hanna, April, 1992
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Charlie Rouse, with Sphere at Baird Auditorium, March, 1985
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Charlie Byrd, Blues Alley, September, 1991
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Rusty Hassan, Felix Grant, W. Royal Stokes, Alexey Batashev and Bill Brower at Blues Alley October 24, 1988 |
Sonny Rollins and Ron Holloway at Blues Alley, April, 1986
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Byron Morris and Unity at Blues Alley, November, 2000
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Hamiet Bluiett and Olu Dara at dc space, June 19, 1982
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Brother Ah at World Jazz Festival on Freedom Plaza, July 4, 1997
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Long Tongues, Julius Hemphill's Saxophone Opera,a production of District Curators, was a musical reimaging of the history of the Bohemian Caverns. December, 1990 |
Butch Warren at the Bohemian Caverns, February, 2011
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Shirley Horn, New Years at the One Step Down December 30, 1990 |
Malachi Thompson and Billy Harper at the One Step Down with James King, Nasar Abadey, and Wade Beach May 24, 1991 |
Hamiet Bluiett at HR-57 with Ed Cherry, Ben Williams, Nashiet Waits, and Chief Bey, March, 2000 |
DeeDee Bridgewater at the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival (now the DC Jazz Festival), October 2008
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Johnson Fat Cat McRee and Wild Bill Davison at the Manassas Jazz Festival November 1987 |
Montage of Various DC Jazz Scenes
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