A Straight No Chaser + Maverik Showroom Collaboration

The Chaser Years: The Photographic Art of Peter Williams

12th – 20th November 2010
Maverik Showroom,
68 – 72 Redchurch Street. London E2 7DP
Opening Times: weekdays 12 – 6pm /weekends: 12 – 4pm

LIVE Sessions!
Sunday 14th November. At 1pm SNC & Maverik present: Chasin’ The Vision: An open discussion with the photographer, Pete Williams & Straight No Chaser’s Paul Bradshaw facilitated by Jason Jules (Garmsville) + Live music: Freestyle & Beyond.

Friday 19th November. 6 – 9pm: Live: The Funky End Of Things – An Open Rehearsal. Fresh from a world tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy, Jazz Warrior and Vibes master, Orphy Robinson, is the Musical Director for all the live music at The Chaser Years: The Photographic Art of Peter Williams.

THE CHASER YEARS: The Photographic Art Of Peter Williams is the first event in the build up to a major exhibition, in the summer of 2011, that will unleash the Interplanetary: Ancient to Future vision of Straight No Chaser magazine. This show is synchronized with the London International Jazz Festival and is devoted to Peter Williams’ deeply resonant and spiritually infused portraits which are grounded in today’s global club culture but stem from a musical diaspora which reflects the profound impact of this thing called “Jazz!”

For nigh on two decades he worked closely with Paul Bradshaw – the driving force behind Straight No Chaser – and with the magazine’s art director, Ian ‘Swifty’ Swift. Working predominantly in black & white his work is part of a lineage which gave us seminal jazz photographers Herman Leonard and William Claxton.

The Chaser Years reveals a powerful collection of images that features influential nu-generation dons like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, The Roots, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside spiritual jazz legends like Don Cherry, Miles Davis Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Yusef Lateef, Steve Reid and Nina Simone. On the global front his lens is focused on Brasil’s Flora Purim, Mali’s majestic Oumou Sangare, former Brasilian Minister for Culture – Gilberto Gil and maskanda queen Busi Mhlongo.

THE CHASER YEARS: The Photographic Art Of Peter Williams is, without doubt, one of the highlights of this year’s London International Jazz Festival and these images are a joy to behold.