The Jazz Loft
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010
New York, NY —
In 1957, photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue. It became a hangout for artists, writers and especially jazz musicians, who rehearsed and jammed there.
By the time Smith left the loft more than a decade later he had documented the activity there through 40,000 photos and roughly 4,000 hours of audio tape.
Sara Fishko and WNYC, in collaboration with partners at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University, have built a radio series from the tapes of loft life discovered in W. Eugene Smith’s vast archive.
The series will premiere on WNYC during Morning Edition on November 16, 2009.
To learn more about the Jazz Loft series, please click here.
