I was looking at my former keyboard player Jason Brown’s blog for some ideas on how to deal with navigation on my blog, and I discovered some really kewl photos he took.
Jason, besides being a really, really nice guy, is an amazing professional photographer. Together with his wife Darcie, they own Revival Arts Studio. If you are in market for a photographer, you owe it to yourself to check them out.
When he played with me in the Bassic Sax Jazz Ensemble, he always had a camera with him and took snap shots on stage. They were candid, and so very real. I really like them. I’ll have to ask him some time if I can post some on this site. Usually band shots are, of course, from the audience’s perspective. On stage, the view is very different. He did a great job of capturing the actual experience of being on stage.
The 2 pictures I’ve included in this post come from 2 very different times and places. The shot of me playing my tenor was taken on April 22nd this year at the Arty Awards. I saw Jason moving around in front of and around the stage in his capacity as a photographer, but didn’t realize that he had taken any photos of me. The second photo was taken in ’06 I think. Jason took this shot of my Mark VI bari in its stand. I think it was taken at the first show that we performed as the Bassic Sax Jazz Ensemble. It was for an art show held at Durant Illusions in Downtown Abbotsford.
