Articles » Dragan Tasic, in his own words

DRAGAN TASIC
Concert Photographer

Since the beginning of the 1990s I've involved myself more intensly with concert photography. As a former professional Blues and Jazz musician, this time, I've transferred my passion for music into photography. "Looking for the feeling" is the core idea of my concert photography. The photos do not only represent the musicians themselves, but their music as much as their personal feelings.

"Blue Cry" is a retrospective of concert photography, I've created during the last 20 years. The name itself, "Blue Cry", is inherent to expressions of the faces and body movements of the musicians, representing their enjoyment and sadness, strength and weakness, love and anger - scream of life, that has become the crucial insight of my photos, meanwhile.

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Dragan Tasic's official website (home): ~www.nga.ch

Biographies » Joe Sample (~vervemusicgroup)

JOE SAMPLE
Pianist / Keyboard Player / Composer
Born: February 1, 1939

For more than four decades, pianist and composer Joe Sample has been an integral, innovative and bestselling part of jazz history. With "Soul Shadows", the first all solo piano recording of Sample's illustrious career, he pays homage to the great American songwriters of the 20th century whose masterful works inspired his own development as one of the most diverse and popular jazz performers of the last half century.

A founding member of the influential jazz funk combo "The Crusaders (originally the Jazz Crusaders)" and a pioneer of contemporary jazz piano, Sample reaches back to the primary sources of jazz and soul music to create his personal interpretations of classics by such esteemed composers as Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, the Gershwins, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and others. While exploring these rich expressions of Americana, Sample acknowledges his own key role in carrying on these powerful legacies by including distinct reworkings of two of his own classics, "Soul Shadows" (which originally appeared on The Crusaders' Midnight Triangle in 1976) and "Spellbound."