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Alex Marks strikes again

11 Mar 2013

HAMIET BLUIETT AND KAHIL EL'ZABAR , 8 MARCH 2013, PHOTO BY ALEX MARKS

HAMIET BLUIETT AND KAHIL EL'ZABAR , 8 MARCH 2013, PHOTO BY ALEX MARKS

The Polaroid series continues, with Alex Marks‘s portraits of jazz legends Hamiet Bluiett and Kahil El’Zabar. TRULY THEY ARE LEGENDS. (Once we get the file, be sure to check out Dan’s and my cursory half-hour history of their music on Marfa Public Radio, which will make you a believer.)

Bluiett and El’Zabar were kind enough to make the 7+ hour trek to Marfa to play at the New Growth opening last Friday, which was electric, and quite emotional (for me) (which I still can’t articulate fully, but was tied to how the set reflected and inspired and informed Johnson’s work), and ended with a call-and-response (!), followed by Bluiett and El’Zabar leading everyone to the community dinner (a longer walk than we anticipated).

DOn Friday morning a man slept on the wet sidewalk, one shoe on, one shoe off.

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