William Ellis » Toronto http://william-ellis.com/blog International Music Photography Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:52:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 In Memory – Ed Thigpen: Toronto, 2003 http://william-ellis.com/blog/2010/01/edthigpentoronto2003/ http://william-ellis.com/blog/2010/01/edthigpentoronto2003/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:27:50 +0000 William Ellis http://william-ellis.com/blog/?p=589 I met Ed Thigpen backstage a few minutes before he was due to play with Benny Green and Russell Malone at the IAJE International Conference. The atmosphere was very relaxed so I asked him if he had a little time to spare so that I could photograph him, he smiled so I asked him to step over towards the stage manager’s lectern which a little shielded light on it bouncing the light up from the papers on it and made this portrait. We met up again at the Hilton in New York in 2006, it was great to see him, he was as busy as ever and chatted for a while about what we’d been up to – projects, gigs and it was such a pleasure to give him a large print of the picture you see here, he was so pleased and so was I.

A wonderful man and a real Master, we’ll all miss him. Bless.

Ed Thigpen Toronto 2003

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