I only managed a few gigs this year at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The festival itself is quite an overwhelming intense torrent of creativity squeezed into a week. The jazz junkies were there in full, so were those just busting their improv music cherries. Shooting jazz at festivals like this is a tricky business. Some venues are huge and the intimacy the music sometimes calls for is difficult to capture. Some venues are lit like your kitchen, while others are so packed that you may get a trombone hit to the head. And the proverbial 3 song limit rule to be obeyed (well in jazz one “song” can be 30min…., so the limit is 20 min). Also cameras make noise and when 2/3 of a tune is silence (its the gaps that make jazz jazz…) your opportunities for shots that mean something are limited. But there you go excuses over, here some shots I kinder liked. For more check out: http://www.lakisideris.com/melbournejazzphotos/
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