Friedlander and the Jazz scene

Jazz is a type of street performance and Lee photographed this scene for a while, creating some very striking portraiture of a number of greats!  Lee recalls a moment when he first listened to Charlie Parker and Nat King Cole on the piano in Seattle: “I was dumbfounded. I somehow knew exactly where he was coming from. He made me understand that anything was possible.” This type of connection to his environment and the subject he was capturing is exactly the environment someone needs who has a love and a passion for something to thrive and really do their best at doing what they do!