the energy and improvisation of life (11 July 2016)

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

- George Gershwin

A crowded street market under New York City Rail Road tracks, looking south on Park Avenue from 123rd Street in June of 1932


True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

- George Gershwin 

 George Gershwin, Concerto in F

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

 - George Gershwin

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

- George Gershwin

 
John Albok, Untitled, 1930, New York  

John Albok, New York City, 1930 Harlem

Yankee Stadium, Yankees on the field during a game, ca. 1935-1947

A view of the city from the Brooklyn Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, on April 24, 1933.