Love and Understanding: The Jazz Photography of Don Schlitten

Schlitten, Don: - Don Schlitten (1932-2026) Although he aspired to be a musician himself, he ultimately settled on becoming a commercial artist and attended Music and Art High School in Harlem. His classmates included jazz pianist Freddie Redd and several founding members of Mad magazine. He produced his first recording session in 1957 for former Charlie Parker bandmate Red Rodney in 1957. From the late 1950s through the 1980s he produced and/or supervised over 300 albums in addition to photographing the artists and designing the album covers.Feldman, Zev: - Zev Feldman is an internationally recognized, independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. Over the last 25 years he has worked for PolyGram, Universal Music Group, Rhino/Warner Music Group, Concord Music Group, among others. He won DownBeat magazine's International Critics Poll for "Rising Star Producer" in 2016 for his work on a staggering 26 historical jazz recordings that year and was called "the Indiana Jones of jazz" by Stereophile magazine. In addition to his lauded work at Resonance, where he works closely with the estates of jazz icons such as Bill Evans and Wes Montgomery, he's also involved with various other labels covering jazz, blues and rock including Elemental Music, Sunset Blvd Records, Real Gone Music, Reel To Real Recordings and others. Zev is one of the co-producers of 2017's highly acclaimed Thelonious Monk discovery Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Sam and Saga Records and another highly lauded Monk discovery Palo Alto from 2020 on Impulse! Records.Panken, Ted: - Ted Panken is an American jazz journalist based in New York City. He has written extensively for publications including DownBeat, Jazziz, Jazz Times, the New York Daily News and jazz.com. From 1985 to 2008, he was a jazz radio DJ at Columbia University's WKCR station. He has written more than 500 liner notes. In 2021, Panken won the Jazz Journalists Association's Book of the Year for Life in E Flat: The Autobiography of Phil Woods, which he co-authored with Phil Woods. In 2016, he received the Jazz Journalists Association's Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism award. In 2007, ASCAP gave the Deems Taylor Award for his Downbeat article "Smalls Universe."