#photo "Peace" + Bill Evans #jazz music

#photo "The Masquerade Is Over" + Nancy Wilson #jazz song

Genève, août 2009, Parc des Bastions 

Happy Holidays and my best wishes for 2012 ! ;-)

Photo taken at Zucotti Park during Occupy Wall Street, New York, USA, 09.26.2011

#photo "Big City Blues" + Sun Ra Arkestra jazz music

New-York, January 2007 by Juan Carlos Hernandez

#photo Lonely Woman + Ornette Coleman music

I'm Confessin' That I Love You + Louis Armstrong song

"Lost Moments", collaboration with poet Gwylym Owen (+ jazz music by Oliver Nelson)

Hi,

I contacted recently a poet from United Kingdom I appreciate a lot for a collaboration. I asked him to choose one of my photos and he has been inspired by the photograph below. Gwylym Owen offered me a splendid poem. Please visit his site in order to read other of his writings http://illiteratepoetry.blogspot.com/

And don't forget, to activate the youtube player (below the photo) reading the poem. I choosed a jazz tune called Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson, a pure classic of jazz music.

Bye for now

Juan Carlos

Lost Moments 

Encased, within enveloping Time-Spatial Curves
Cosmic ray showers, fade as Muons decay
Swallowed whole, in that great ocean of sands
Likened to the silence, in-between Musical notes
Memory evokes such, wonderfully fond tales;
Cheap impersonations, that hardly fill the void;
Of stolen moments in, transitory Manifestation.
Hustle and bustle, tempered by the mild gentle wind.
Ebbing and flowing, toing and froing.
Untouched by even, the most severest, of frost.
A young boy never standing still, a childhood lost.
A moppet's memory, of scented meadows, freshly cut.
The way the scent fades, as the years pass.
Those treasured moments never seem to last.
Chasing them is a pointless and thankless task;
And as the Grand 'Ammon's horn', starts to stir and trip
On Neptune's vehicle in the high seas of the Hippocampus
Click, click, Clack, there's only one logical fact.
Steal your future back, Conjure up: 'Omnipresent Style',
Live, every waking instant, as if it were your last.
Fill all of those, pilfered Flashes, with moments; worth stealing.
Too busy fashioning, to look back, creating stolen moments;
That's the task, that will always last, this kind of trice is always nice.
So the choice is yours: Celebrate or Regret: "Stolen Moments."
Though - as you swoosh through; Fleeting, flashes;
Cherish and adore, as they do unfold,
For, surely this is the definition, of purest Gold.


copyright Gwylym Owen, 2011

A photograph, a poem by Sophia Fine and the Charles Lloyd music

Hi ;-)

I'm so proud to introduce to you Sophia Fine who is a fantastic painter and talented writer.

She has been inspired by one of my photographs and wrote a very poetic, exuberant, romantic, and overall deep text poem.

This is a wonderful collaboration of me and Sophia that I hope to continue in the future.

Bye for now

Vital Lift

I don’t remember when the waves brought me here on these pebbles where roses grew just waiting my arrival.. my voice engraved on their petals echoing the voice I fear to hear:

The music, sudden, may end..

Among the scorched seaweeds and through the light and darkness I possess, it is me you behold..

I will sink to the ocean floor only to emerge more beautiful, to grow endurable..

and it is we I behold..

Astonished eyes that look always around for something or other to burn with their fires, are locked on this vision..

I am the open sea, you can become whatever I made of you..
I am the current you always kept coming to..

Taking one more quick breath and a second one, I am writing it now on my own as a healing balm that brings my soul to life.. kinesis rather than will.

With gongs and glangs the messengers I wasn’t expecting brought their sounds and words.. I don’t recognize what they say, I fear..

Down in time..

This radiant woman that stands before you starts to unravel like a flower’s petals and her unfolding, you may think, is yours and nobody else’s.

Inside the bud you sense the dense force of the dancer’s weight that leaps like flame.. let her breath bestow on you.. a vital lift.

The lips that open petal to petal to whisper.. are melting the words like lead and everything starts and stops with those lips.. their mystery is crafted in your soul..

Sleep is falling into dreams that may deepen to a nightmare.

Down in time..

Seduction takes on a brutal strength now, and soon the girl who emerged from the sea foam will entice you to expertly love her..

You may never ever want to snap out of this..

Remember our souls once they desired to part ways with the body now feel a deeper thirst in a place that all is dry.

Between us now the night’s sky steeped with stars that are still burning to speak our destiny, our mark.

The heart wants to find release after all that pounding that transformed the fragrant dance..

and so,

as I nestle inside my soul my vision expands and refracts, enlarging things that may be better kept at a distance..

Love will prevail..

An ascetic allegro plays now.. I enter.. steeped in a kaleidoscope still hanging on by a fainting gleam.

I accept who we are with the same breath that takes our breath away.

— Sophia Fine
— November 2010

My book "Estelas de Jazz" now available on Amazon + Barnes & Noble

Hi Folks,

I'm happy after seven years shooting jazz musicians here and there with passion to launch officially my first book "Estelas de Jazz" available worldwide thanks to Amazon and Barnes & Noble (directs links at the final of this post)
I have collaborated with the Spanish writer Belen Carmona Moreno who has offered her literary writings to the 123 photographs in black and white of jazz musicians across the pages.
An important detail, even if the photographs are in an universal lenguage, the texts are in spanish and you will find an example below of one the texts.
Another important detail, this book is not about stars of jazz music but it's overall a tribute to the jazz musicians that's why you will not find only photographs of stars as Ornette Coleman or Joshua Redman but also photographs of unknown or underrated musicians I admire. That's a tribute to all the jazz musicians.

Here you have one the photographs and texts included on the book. That's a photograph of the fantastic french cornettist Médéric Collignon.

"Médéric sube al cuadrilátero con paso firme y busca a su contrincante con mirada desafiante. Es heredero directo de los primeros practicantes de “Savate”, una suerte de arte marcial que tuvo sus orígenes en las peleas entre marineros, en el puerto de Marsella. Suena un golpe de campana y da comienzo el asalto. Sus pasos le llevan a bailar alrededor del ring, en una especie de sobrio ritual. El primer gancho va directo a las válvulas de su trompeta, obligando a ésta a emitir un quejido seco y profundo. Poco a poco le va ganando terreno al instrumento, hasta que éste, se rinde a sus pies convirtiéndose en esclavo del más fuerte de los púgiles. Collignon domina de tal manera que no hay melodía que se le resista y siempre acaba haciéndose con el titulo de vencedor."

Finally, please find below a promotional video with the 123 photographs of "Estelas de Jazz"



Technical details :

Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (June 15, 2010)
ISBN-10: 3838308743
ISBN-13: 978-3838308746
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches

Musicians included on the book : 

Ornette Coleman, Sheila Jordan, Eduardo Kohan, Raphael Anker, Alex Blake, Andy Milne, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Michel Bastetm Evan Parker, François Moutin, Scott DuBois, Martial Solal, Médéric Collignon, Stefano Di Battista, Nasheet Waits, Nicolas Masson, Pete La Roca Sims, Henri Texier, Skoota Warner, Sonny Rollins, Stéphane Fisch, Susana Raya, Tom Harrell,
Stefano Saccon, Marc Copland, Thomas Morgan, Hank Roberts, Robin McKelle, Seamus Blake, Alice Perret,William Parker, Giovanni Falzone, Hilaria Kramer, Mario Pavone, Charles Lloyd, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Banz Oester, Béatrice Graf, Chris Potter, Dado Moroni, Co Streiff, Kenny Wheeler, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Denis Beuret, Steve Coleman, Jean-Yves Poupin, Bud Shank, Jason Moran, Eric McPherson, Kenny Barron, Flavio Boltro, Florence Melnotte, Guillaume Perret, Insa Rudolph, James Moody, Joe Locke, John Aram, Pascal Alba, Ken Vandermark, Lionel Loueke, Marc Ducret, Urs Leimgruber, Otomo Yoshihide, Paolo Fresu, Perry Robinson, Roy Hargrove, Peter Brotzmann, Ramon Lopez, Roberta Gambarini, Slide Hampton, Sunny Murray, Sylvie Courvoisier, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Sophie Tassignon, Julie Campiche, Yael Miller, Yuri Honing, Henry Grimes, Charlie Mariano, Marc Perrenoud, Gerald Cleaver, Olivier Gatto, Camélia Ben Naceur, Lydia Filipovic, Enrico Rava, Tim Berne, Drew Gress, Matthieu Michel, Alexis Cuadrado, Ralph Alessi, Michel Portal, Rosario Bonaccorso, Jim Black, Samuel Blaser, Jacky Terrasson, Mark Helias, Mulgrew Miller, Ohad Talmor,
Tania Maria, Al Foster, Moncef Genoud, Joshua Redman, Joey Baron, Richard Bona, Wayne Escoffery, Marcos Jimenez, Peter Van Huffel, Alain Della Maestra, Evaristo Perez, Abraham Burton, Herbie Hancock, Bill Frisell, Bob Stewart, Michel Wintsch, Dave Douglas, Ernie Odoom, Cyril Moulas, Martin Wisard, Patricia Tondreau, Gabriel Zufferey

Where you can order the book  :

Amazon.com http://amzn.to/9yftDJ

Barnes & Noble : http://bit.ly/aRDfeA
Amazon UK : http://amzn.to/bMRxNM
Amazon Japan : http://amzn.to/a0GK5g

Amazon France : http://amzn.to/9lhV9B
Amazon Germany http://amzn.to/90SAFw

This book is fully dedicated to Marie U., without whom this book wouldn't have existed.

http://amzn.to/bMRxNM

Artist of the Day for "Art of Day"

Hi,

I'm pleased to have been nominated recently as "Artist of The Day" by a very interesting US website, " Art of Day" dedicated to visual Arts and full of useful ressources for artists or art lovers.

The link on this article is http://artofday.com/wordpress/?p=1658 and it is named "The Contemporary Jazz Photography of Juan Carlos Hernandez" .

I offered to Art of Day, photos of Cassandra Wilson, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Roy Hargrove, Ramon Lopez, Kenny Barron and Claude Tchamitchian in order to illustrate the article.

Bye for now

jc