#herb snitzer

[henk-heijmans]

Thelonious Monk (American, 1917 - 1982), jazz pianist, New York, 1959 - by Herb Snitzer (1932 - 2022), American

[chantssecrets]

Thelonious Monk, 📸 Herb Snitzer

[lascitasdelashoras]

Ron Carter and Randy Weston. Photo by Herb Snitzer

[joeinct]

Nina Simone (Nina Laughing), Photo by Herb Snitzer, 1959

[bitter69uk]

Q: Do you get off on being tempestuous?

A: “What do you mean “get off”? That’s just the way I am.”

Q: How would you like to be remembered?

A: “I want to be remembered as a diva from beginning to end who never compromised in what she felt about racism and how the world should be, and who to the end of her days consistently stayed the same.”

Q: But isn’t life about evolving and changing?

A: “Not for me.”

/ Brantley Bardin interviewing legend-with-an-attitude with Nina Simone in Details magazine, January 1997 /

Born on this day: lacerating, regal and fierce High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone (née Eunice Kathleen Waymon, 21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003). I’d argue Simone was at her artistic zenith between 1964 – 1966, when she recorded essential statements like “I Put a Spell on You”, “Work Song” (“I left the grocery store man bleeding …”), “Ne Me Quitte Pas”, “Wild is the Wind”, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, “I Hold No Grudge” and especially “Four Women” (“I’m gonna kill the first mutha I see …”). Pictured: portrait of Simone by Herb Snitzer, 1959.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Thelonious Monk playing ping-pong, 1959.

"I used to play him in ping-pong. He was like a cat around the table. I never won a game, but it was a joy to play him." —Herb Snitzer

Photo: Herb Snitzer via Table Tennis Daily

[vinyl-artwork]

Nina Simone At Town Hall, 1959.

Photo by Herb Snitzer.

[pretonobranco77]

Thelonious Monk at Lincoln Centre, NYC, 1962 By Herb Snitzer