Roy DeCarava

Roy Rudolph DeCarava

(1919-2009)

"I'm fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians, and that always means a dark room somewhere… I try to capture the performer's intensity, the concentration. It's so beautiful to see. . . . It's an expression of love."

Billie Holiday & Hazel Scott


Duke Ellington


John Coltrane & Ben Webster

"Jazz to me is a musical expression of subjective individual emotions by particular individuals in their own unique way. Everything a jazzman feels, sees, hears, everything he was and is becomes the source and object of his music. It is a music purchased with dues of hardship, suffering and pain, optimism and love."

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