James Knox is music reviewer/photographer for www.j-notes.com. He has been photographing and writing about the San Francisco Bay Area jazz scene for over five years. His work is featured in Jazz Review, Blogcritics, SF Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition. His photographs are featured on album covers for Clairdee, Adam Shulman, and Nicolas Bearde.
James has taken photographs at the Monterey Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ, Vallejo Jazz Festival, The Jazzschool in Berkeley, Yoshi's Jazz Club, Berkeley Jazz Festival, Jazz at Pearl's, San Jose Jazz Festival, Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Art and Soul Oakland Festival, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Anna's Jazz Island, Jazz on the River/Russian River Jazz Festival and countless music concerts. He also enjoys photographing nature, architecture, food, classic cars, and neon signage.
His jazz photography has been exhibited at the San Francisco Main Public Library (2007) and The Jazzschool in Berkeley (2008). He is currently working on new exhibit for Jazz Appreciation Month (April 2010) with the San Jose Jazz Festival.
"James Knox is a great Bay Area ambassador for Jazz. His photographs are vibrant and beautiful and capture the true spirit and soul of the Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival. It is a pleasure working with him every year." - Geoff Roach, Executive Director, San Jose Jazz
James credits his passion for photography and jazz to his father, Ritson Knox.
Patti Austin – Yoshi’s San Francisco
I have loved Patti Austin for as long as I can remember. It was an honor to photograph her shows. I saw her three times during her run and each show was amazing. You can see more photos from her show here.
Piedmont Piano Company – Oakland, California
The Piedmont Piano Company recently opened in the revitalized Uptown District of Downtown Oakland. It was formerly a drafting supply store in a past life. Piedmont Piano redid the neon signage when they bought the building.
Celebrating the Photographic Art of Jim & Ted
Featuring images of people, places & abstracts by two East Bay photographers Jim Dennis and Ted Pontiflet
January 18 – February 26, 2010
Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery
State of California Office Building – Atrium
1515 Clay St. , Oakland CA 94607
3rd Thursday Events:
Thursday, January 21st -Reception 5-8pm
Thursday, February 18th 5-7pm– Live Performance by Lloyd Gregory, guitarist 7-8pm Conversations with the Artists
Reception and Events are part of “Third Thursday – Oakland Art Night”
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Free to the public
BART, AC Transit and Wheelchair Accessible
For more information contact: 510-622-8190 or 510.238.7386
www.oaklandculturalarts.org
Please join us!
I look forward to seeing you soon.
Jim Dennis
www.jimdennisphotography.com
I wish you very happy holiday season and all the best for the New Year.
I took this photo in 2007 at a Christmas party with my Canon PowerShot SD750 point and shoot camera. I loved the scene of burning candles floating in a bowl of water. I am not the only one who loves this photos as it has been viewed 1000 times on Flickr.
Speaking of photos, it has been a very busy year of photography. I have lots of catching up to do on my photo editing. I am hoping to get some editing done during the quiet moments of holiday season. I am preparing for photo exhibits in 2010 and 2011. It is also time for me to start thinking about publishing a photo book, which is my ultimate goal. Stay tuned!
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In June, I took a travel photography course at the Berkeley Public Library. The original focus of the class was travel photography but it became more of a photography 101 course which better served the needs of the students. I took this course for two reasons: You can always learn something new and to support a friend whom I encouraged to take the course. We met for four Saturdays in June and it was a very imformative class. I was able to learn new ways of using my DSLR (digital single lens relflex) as well as my point and shoot cameras.
The photo mosiac above was created using Picasa. After our third class, we went to the Berkeley Farmer’s Market on a photo stroll. The goal of this assignment was to take photos of things that caught our eye including being able to ask people to take photos of them. It was fun and people were nice about having their photo taken. For our final class, we did show and tell, showing the photos from the previous week’s assignment. In addition, I brought in some of my jazz photography to show the class.
Special thanks to Andrienne Miller, our photography instructor and Michelle McKenzie, Berkeley Public Library Librarian.
I had the pleasure of meeting spoken word artist Joyce Lee when she recently performed with singer Valerie Troutt at Yoshi’s San Francisco. Her performance was spectacular.
Ernestine told her band, “Play like you had the blues last night.” That is exactly what they did.
The Fillmore Jazz Festival was held July 4 and 5 on Fillmore Street running from Eddy Street up to Jackson Street. There were three different performance stages featuring jazz, blues, latin and soul music. There were even swing dancing lessons.
My photo highlights include the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra f/t Faye Carol, Marcus Shelby & Friends (@ Yoshi’s SF), Bay Area Blues Society, and Kim Nalley.
More festival photos on Flickr.
by James
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