WHAT REMAINS
The instrument alone is never empty.
It is full of everything it has ever played. Every note. Every musician who ever held it. Every room it ever filled with sound.
These photographs ask what happens when inspiration passes through human hands and leaves something behind — in iron, in brass, in silver, in steel. Something that outlasts the moment. Something that outlasts us all.
This is what remains.
Selected prints available no my shop
"Stay Human" From the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival: Jonathan Batiste (b. 1986) and Stay Human on stage. Batiste is an acclaimed artist, known for his numerous Grammys and Oscar-winning work. ©2015
The Big Band The Big Band During Nea Jazz Master Ron Carter's birthday celebration performing live at the Blue Note @2017
Big Band ( series ) BLUE NOTE, NYC. ©2017
"Roy's Hat" Grammy Award-winning Roy Hargrove (b. 1969 – d. 2018) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ©2010
"Untitled" Systems Two studio in Brooklyn, NY: Grammy Award-winning Roy Hargrove (b. 1969 – d. 2018) immersed in a recording session. This intimate moment was captured in 2013. ©2013
Roy Hargrove's 2017 residency at the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC: Grammy Award-winning Roy Hargrove (b. 1969 – d. 2018), perhaps on a tune like "My Prince Shall Come." ©2017
A quiet moment before the music begins: Grammy Award-winning Roy Hargrove (b. 1969 – d. 2018), flugelhorn by his side, backstage at NJPAC. This contemplative photo was taken in 2016. ©2016
"The Butterfly" the piano at Zinc Bar, NYC 2010 ©2010
"Second Line" New Orleans Jazz Festival ©2009
"Jimmy's Trumpets" Jimmy Heath (1926-2020) Big Band trumpet section, Harlem, NY ©2014
Tres Aguas, during Elio Villafranca's Big Band "Tres Aguas " shows at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola ©2025