{"id":66,"date":"2024-05-07T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:33:40","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/press\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photographer Efrain Ribeiro<\/a>, has been nominated
Baltimore\u2019s 2024 Jazz Hero<\/a>, by the Jazz Journalists Association:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201chis rich photographic documentation of the Baltimore jazz scene has made him a major player of the city\u2019s music community.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Todd Marcus<\/a>
Bass clarinetist, 2016 Jazz Heroes<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photographer Efrain Ribeiro<\/a>, Baltimore\u2019s 2024 Jazz Hero, was born in Japan to Peruvian parents while his father worked for the United Nations\/World Health Organization in Korea; he spent his youth in El Salvador, Argentina and Maryland, where he remains. His rich photographic documentation of the Baltimore jazz scene has made him a major player of the city\u2019s music community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though he started his career in the arts, attending Johns Hopkins in the early 1970s to study creative writing and filmmaking, Efrain ended up working in market research for global conglomerates for more than 45 years. Since retiring in 2016, he has emerged as an important personage practicing his photography at Baltimore concerts and club dates as well as the outdoor jam sessions and sidewalk concerts that proliferated during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His photographic style features beautiful warmth and color that intimately capture the area\u2019s musicians as they perform and interact.  The depth of Ribeiro\u2019s photography is reminiscent of Francis Wolff\u2019s great 1950s and \u201860s images for Blue Note Records<\/a> but depicts our current musicians, both well-established artists and students just starting their careers. Driven by the omissions exist within the recorded history of jazz, Efrain regularly photographs several performances a week, posting photos on his Instagram account @breton9jazz. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, Ribeiro makes all of his photos available at no cost to the musicians he focuses on.  This community service has provided hundreds of the area\u2019s players with vivid images they\u2019ve used to promote and archive their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having shot thousands of rolls of film since 1973, the photographer is currently digitizing his negatives, which portray such legendary artists as  Sun Ra and Charles Mingus at Baltimore\u2019s historic Left Bank Jazz Society, and Julius Hemphill and the Art Ensemble of Chicago at DC Space in the \u201970s. Now Efrain Ribeiro haunts An die Musik<\/a> (run by 2021 JJA Baltimore Jazz Hero Henry Wong)<\/a>, R House, DIY spaces, outdoor jam sessions, porch concerts and wherever local jazz is happening. You\u2019ll recognize this Jazz Hero: Efrain Riberio is the man with the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Todd Marcus<\/a>
Bass clarinetist, 2016 Jazz Hero<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographer Efrain Ribeiro, has been nominatedBaltimore\u2019s 2024 Jazz Hero, by the Jazz Journalists Association: \u201chis rich photographic documentation of the Baltimore jazz scene has made him a major player of the city\u2019s music community.\u201d \u2014 Todd MarcusBass clarinetist, 2016 Jazz Heroes Read the article Photographer Efrain Ribeiro, Baltimore\u2019s 2024 Jazz Hero, was born in Japan to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breton9jazz.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}