Women in Jazz - Barbara Dennerlein

A lot of female jazz musicians are united in a project that admittedly focuses on watching them rather than listening to them. Photographer Rüdiger Schestag and Ulf Herden, promoter of the Jazz Festival "Women in Jazz" in Halle (Saale), Germany, had the idea to publish a large formatted photo book "Women in Jazz" (30x30 cm) and about 250 pages strong. It contains big artist portraits and band photos in the live concert situation of the festival from the past ten years. Big Portraits (close ups) that are rarely to be seen.

"Beautiful photos!" Barbara Dennerlein spontaneously said when she has was requested to release the selected photos of her that had been taken during her festival participation in 2008.

The initiators say about their project: "We want to release this big photographical work with more than hundred portraits of well known female jazz musicians and her band members in a picture book to provide access to the female side of jazz for a larger scale of publicity. It is a project for both jazz and photography fans. The big goal is to get extraordinary book project started."

In April, when the next festival "Women in Jazz" will take place, would be the perfect time to release the book. But the production of such a high quality photo book is quite expensive. Thus, Ulf Herden and Rüdiger Schestag started a crowd funding campaign to finance the book production. Everybody can support this project financially, make a reservation of his own copy and help to support jazz culture in Germany. Sponsors who are interested in a bunch of copies are very welcome, too and can be mentioned in the book as premium supporters.

So, this project is perfectly suited for everyone who loves women and jazz!

https://www.startnext.com/women-in-jazz-buch