{"id":8131,"date":"2017-01-29T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2017-01-29T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T03:05:49","slug":"chuck-stewart-and-ed-berger-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/01\/chuck-stewart-and-ed-berger-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Stewart And Ed Berger, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two non-musicians prominent in the US jazz community have died in the past week. One was a
\nphotographer whose images are among the most prominent in jazz history. Chuck Stewart’s intimate work appeared on dozens of album covers and in magazines. He was 89. Among his most familiar photographs were those of John Coltrane. Stewart (pictured right)”\u00a0took the one ”\u00a0below at a recording session for Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album A Love Supreme<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nIn a New York Times<\/em> interview, Fellow photographer Carol Friedman said of Stewart,<\/p>\n

What is immediately apparent is that his subjects have let him into their inner sanctum. They like him and they trust him. Whether he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s documenting them at a recording session or capturing them in the privacy of his own studio, he knew how to defer to the moment in time that unfolded before him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Asked in an interview about being labeled, Stewart referred to his variety of subjects, which included stars of popular and classical music, and Harlem street scenes:<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m called a jazz photographer. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that got to do with anything? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also photographed Bo Didley and Leopold Stokowski.<\/p>\n

(Photo of Stewart by Chester Higgins, Jr.)<\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Ed Berger was an author, an accomplished photographer and associate director of Rutgers University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Institute of Jazz Studies. Like Chuck Stewart, Berger died a little over a week ago. He was 67. He contributed to Jazz Times<\/em> and was co-editor of the Journal of Jazz Studies<\/em>. Known for his helpfulness to jazz scholars and musicians, Berger wrote books that brought him acclaim in jazz circles. They include biographies and oral histories. His Benny Carter: A Life In American Music<\/a><\/em> is a definitive study of the life and work of the saxophonist, trumpeter, bandleader and composer. His most recent book is Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music<\/a><\/em> (2014), a biography of the trumpeter and an appreciation of Wilder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to music, which was at once lyrical and powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two non-musicians prominent in the US jazz community have died in the past week. One was a photographer whose images are among the most prominent in jazz history. Chuck Stewart’s intimate work appeared on dozens of album covers and in magazines. He was 89. Among his most familiar photographs were those of John Coltrane. Stewart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}