Jazz Odyssey: A Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton
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An exhibit of the photographs of Milton J. Hinton, renowned jazz bassist and dedicated chronicler of jazz musicians at work and play, will go on exhibit at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 135 East 22nd Street on February 6, 1998, continuing through March 4, 1998. Milt Hinton began taking photos of his musical friends and colleagues on Chicago' s South Side in the 1930's. He never stopped -- and over the next 50 years accumulated a fascinating photo archive of jazz musicians in rehearsal, on the road, at parties, in clubs and in recording studios. Fifty of these photos will be shown at the Mishkin Gallery in an exhibit entitled Jazz Odyssey: A Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton. Together they constitute a pictorial record of a vastly talented, uniquely American subculture -- a sociological and historical view of the world of working jazz musicians from the vantage point of someone who knew them intimately. Milt Hinton's subjects include many of the greatest names in jazz: Eubie Blake, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Sy Oliver, Cab Calloway (with whom he traveled for fifteen years), Thelonius Monk, John Coltrarle, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. A teacher as well as a performer, Milt Hinton was a member of the Baruch College Music Department, giving Baruch students a unique experience in his celebrated Jazz Workshop. Among his many honors is the designation "A Living Treasure of Jazz" bestowed on him in 1989 by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and the Capital City Jazz Festival. In 1998 Hinton published Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milton Hinton, a kind of autobiography-cum-memoir with photographs, which he wrote with David G. Berger, a Temple University sociologist and longtime friend. The book was highly acclaimed and Modern Photography called Hinton "a gifted and important photographer." In 1991, Milt Hinton published another book, this time with David G. Berger and Holly Maxson, entitled Overtime: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton. Milt Hinton's photography has been shown in several group and one-man shows. The group shows include Jazz Images at Rutgers University (1979) and A Century of Black Photographers: 1840-1960, at the Rhode Island School of Design (March 1983 - August 1984). Recently his work has been featured at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (May 3 July 14,1997) and the Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution (Summer 1997). The exhibition at Baruch will open with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 5th. Juanita Howard, Professor of Sociology at Baruch, will give a gallery talk on Wednesday, February 25th, at 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Regular viewing hours at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery are Monday - Friday 12 Noon to 5 p.m., except Thursdays,12 Noon to 7 p.m. Free and Open to the Public.
© 1997 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College
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