A 'Festival' of Photos

On Blues, Jazz Stars

A 'Festival’ Of Photos

A retrospective exhibit of photographs of the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival and other images by David Capps will be held at the Michigan Union Gallery Sept. 1-15.

Over the past five years Capps has photographed, talked to and listened to the music of such artists as Miles Davis. Lucille Spann, Howlin' Wolf and Usef Lateef. Last September the Union Gallery held the first exhibit of these collected photographs by Capps during the week of the festival in Ann Arbor. This year’s festival will be held Sept. 6-8 in Windsor, Ontario.

Deep interest in music Capps has this to say: “I was born in central Illinois in 1925, and spent my boyhood in Berea, Kentucky. Country music pervaded the town, yet I was fascinated by a different kind of music, which was exotic to me — the wonderful ‘stride’ piano of Fats Waller. As a boy, I grubbed long at chores to buy his records, at the rate of about one minute of recorded music per hour of work. Jazz, and its derivatives, has absorbed me ever since.

“Photographing the Blues and Jazz Festivals has allow-

ed me to indulge two deep interests, music and photography, and to see, hear, meet and photograph the successors to Fats," says Capps.

"Besides the festival pictures, there is a group of ‘other images,' most of them taken locally — details of Ann Arbor which I have liked.”

An opening reception for the Capps exhibit will be held on Sunday. Sept. 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Union Gallery is-located on the first floor of the Michigan Union. 530 S. State St. Regular gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.