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Watch a short documentary of The Richard Hambleton Retrospective featuring the photography of Hank O'Neal at Phillips de Pury , New York City from September 9 through the 13th, 2011 presented by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Phillips De Pury & Giorgio Armani.  Click here

 

Hank's photographs of Richard Hambleton as featured in the June issue of Bliss Magazine.  Download the PDF here: Bliss article

 

Hank's latest show: Portraits 1970-2010 at The Lancaster Museum of Fine Art. This one man photographic exhibition features noted portraits Hank has taken over the last four decades.  The show will run through February 27th.  For more information please visit the museums web site here: http://www.lmapa.org/exh.html

Hank's Portrait of Robert Indiana during his reception at the Four Season's Restaurant in New York City, featured in Art in America: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2011-01-26/robert-indiana-hope-four-seasons/

Hank's Photographs of Richard Hambleton's Shadow Men on display @ The Dairy, London:  http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/12/viewpoints-openings-richard-hambleton-pop-up-show-the-dairy-london/img_3876_p-nguyen/

 

Hank's photography graced the facade of the AMFAR pavillion, Cap D'Atibes France, May 20, 2010

C-Span July 2010 —The American Association of University Professors, features The Ghosts Of Harlem American Edition as one of it's choices for The "Best of The Best" University Editions. "The Best of The Bests" Program program, offers librarians the opportunity to share advice and recommendations with their colleagues, and recognizes the valuable contribution that university press books can make to both public and secondary school libraries. (note:The Ghosts of Harlem feature begins at 11:40 and ends at 14:40) :Please Have a look at the video here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294474-1

Jazz Times Interview June 2010 — Hank O’Neal: Chasing Ghosts

ArtNews Article, March 2010, Friendships In Focus - Berenice Abbott, PDF

Hank O'Neal's Lower East Side Project Featured On Swiss T.V.

Seventh Man Magazine - "Richard Hambleton — New York" in Milan

Featured Artist on Valmorbida.com

Artists We Love, Featured Photographs of Richard Hambleton Street Art

Swide, Hank O'Neal's Portraits of Richard Hambleton, showing in Milan

oneartworld.com - Featuring Hank O'Neal's Richard Hambleton Related Prints for Sale

Abitare - Richard Hambleton in Milan featuring a portrait by Hank O'Neal

 

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The Jazz Pianists

I produced my first recording of a solo jazz pianist in Manassas, Virginia on January 19, 1969, the day before Richard Nixon's first Inauguration. The pianist was Don Ewell, and I was in the Washington, D. C. area because I was minding a band of assorted ruffians led by Eddie Condon, who were scheduled to perform at one of the Inaugural Balls. The circumstances of the recording are outrageous, but that's another story; the important thing was the record that was produced that day was awarded five stars in Downbeat magazine.

A year later, in 1970, I joined Marian McPartland and Sherman Fairchild in a business partnership and formed Halcyon Records. The first three recordings were of solo pianists; Marian, Earl Hines and Willie the Lion Smith. When that company was restructured in 1971, with Sherman Fairchild and myself going it alone, the first recording was also by a solo pianist, Mary Lou Williams.

After Sherman Fairchild’s unexpected death, I became the sole proprietor of Chiaroscuro in 1971; eleven of the first twenty releases were of solo pianists: Earl Hines, Don Ewell, Willie the Lion Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Dave McKenna, Claude Hopkins, Dill Jones, Teddy Wilson and Dick Wellstood. This love of pianists, solo pianists in particular, has continued for over forty, resulting in many hundreds of records and CDs, as well as concerts and music festivals, where pianists were featured. I photographed these productions (often as Rollo Phlecks), kept notes about the events and remember hundreds of anecdotes. .

 

 

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