Snoop Dogg and his Stampede Management camp are now official collectors of photo art.
This print “New York Dayscape” is available as part of a boxed set.

read Nature “Seven” x
Paradigm shift

Another selection out of my realNEWYORK series available for sale to benefit relief for Japan. You can now get a limited edition print while helping people in need.
More will be added.

I am making a few selections out of my realNEWYORK series available for sale to benefit relief for Japan. You can now get a limited edition print while helping people in need.
More will be added.

Even in the City

Serial rip’ist is at it again.
One of my first post’s on 12oz was about having my art work and style being biten one too many times. It has happened allot but sometimes
you have to put your foot down. A video director named Melina Matsoukas straight ripped my photography and replicated the setup for an   Eve
video. I sued and settled quietly. Now the same director has done it again with the latest   Rihanna video S&M, she and Rihanna are being
sued by photographer David Lachapelle for 4 million dollars. To start, we all get inspired by other artist, but you gotta find your own juice, at least when
working in the public arena and start capitalizing. Pay for your samples. Act respectfully. Discourage rippin’.

Is Music and Art.

Born Edmond Gregory in Savannah, Georgia in 1925, Shihab cut his teeth on post-Parker bop, recording with Miles, Coltrane, Monk (he’s on the original version of Round About Midnight) and Dizzy Gillespie’s big band before departing the U.S. in the late ‘50s, angered by the racial tensions of contemporary New York. “I don’t have time for this racial bit,” he told Down Beat magazine in 1963, “It depletes my energies.”

After touring Europe with the Quincy Jones Big Band in the early ‘60s, Shihab settled down in Scandinavia, moving between Denmark and Sweden and establishing a thoroughly unique driving sound that blended post bop, modal, Eastern and Northern European styles; wild rasping experiments on flute and sax, against driving, flowing rhythms that suggested nothing less than the reed equivalent of the mercurial Monk himself.

This album, cut live in Copenhagen in ‘63, is a rolling joy. Led in by Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson’s walking bass, and the twin-drum kits of Alex Riel and Bjarne Rostovold, opening track, 4070 Blues, comes on like some pastoral theme tune from the wildest ever ‘70s kids’ TV show, Shihab’s urgent, rough-house flute wigging out and digging in as the rhythm section keep it moving ever forward, like some carnival of woodland animals hopped up on mushrooms and licorice root. Shihab’s clenched, cautious introduction to Charade - “The title… song… from… the Stanley. Donen. Pro. Duction. A UNI! Versal release… titled ‘Sharard’ or ‘Sha-raid’...” - suggest that he may not have been completely sober during the recording, but his playing, as soloist and bandleader is totally in control, pulling the band on a twisting, mystical ride that conjures up images of Cary Grant’s Euro playboy world wrenched at the seams by free psychedelic revolution.

An unsung hero of radical ‘60s and 70’s jazz, Shihab’s wider rediscovery is long overdue. Stay tuned..you are about to witness just that.

Sahib Shihab – And The Danish Radio Jazz Group (Oktav, 2008)

I’ve got a sick collection of unseen photo’s and more.
(a young Quincy Jones 1960)

All photography from ©Sahib Shihab

We are only just scratching the surface on this one.

Check back frequently for updates.

MS MAGAZINE 12.12 2010

Should anyone be passing thru Copenhagen over the next few weeks, Starting Sunday, i have a few smaller edition pieces at very friendly prices
hanging at   Martin Asbæk gallery

Taschen published a fat book of all covers coinciding with the magazines 30th birthday.
My pictures are featured.
 

JAMAICA ORIGINATES 2005 SAMPLER from Jamil GS on Vimeo.

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Photo session for The Face magazine, “Firm” days.