"Keystone Korner was the quintessential jazz club. With the down-home feeling of your favorite neighborhood watering hole and with the special spark of international artistic charisma that a knowledgeable jazz audience brings to any environment, the Keystone was a happy home to people of all persuasions. Musicians loved playing there.... The Keystone was one of those rare places enjoyed by angels and demons alike. What more could you ask for? I loved it and miss it."
—Wynton Marsalis, Musician
"A truly unique record of a unique jazz venue, in images and words. Kathy Sloane captures her subjects at just the right moment, her insights human as well as visual, illuminating the frank and vivid recollections of performers, staffers and patrons. Listen to the music as you view and read, and it's almost like being there, at one of the greatest jazz nightclubs there ever was."
—Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Author, "Living With Jazz" (Pantheon Books)
"Kathy Sloane uses her photography in a way that brings people together rather than as an end in itself. That’s unique among photographers and might be her special gift. People trust their spirits with her and thus they allow her to see their beauty. She makes a record of that beauty in her photographs. That to me is holy work."
—Julius Lester, author and photographer
"The great success of Keystone Korner comes from the relationships between the waiters and bartenders, the musicians, the people who visit the club, the owners, and the managers. That success is evidenced by the intimate photographs and the memories captured in this book. In looking at these strikingly imaginative framed portraits, I can only imagine the sounds, the lighting and the emotions of the time. The text reads like ambient sound, which I believe makes this such a remarkable project."
—Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University—Tisch School for the Arts
"The book is a kaleidoscope of verbal and pictorial images by an articulate group of jazz players, club employees, and some who merely hung out for the listening....Its raison d’etre is largely dependent on [Kathy Sloane's] striking images."
—Duncan Schiedt, Author, jazz historian, and photographer
"Kathy Sloane’s book beautifully captures an important period in time reflecting local, and national cultural history. These images and interviews in Keystone Korner reflect a creative environment, and a rich musical heritage that might have been lost if not for Sloane’s passion and vision."
—Lewis Watts , University of California Santa Cruz, Harlem of the West
"...a welcome and much-needed addition to the documentation of jazz in America."
—Hank O'Neal, record producer, photographer, and author of The Ghosts of Harlem, among many other books
—Wynton Marsalis, Musician
"A truly unique record of a unique jazz venue, in images and words. Kathy Sloane captures her subjects at just the right moment, her insights human as well as visual, illuminating the frank and vivid recollections of performers, staffers and patrons. Listen to the music as you view and read, and it's almost like being there, at one of the greatest jazz nightclubs there ever was."
—Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Author, "Living With Jazz" (Pantheon Books)
"Kathy Sloane uses her photography in a way that brings people together rather than as an end in itself. That’s unique among photographers and might be her special gift. People trust their spirits with her and thus they allow her to see their beauty. She makes a record of that beauty in her photographs. That to me is holy work."
—Julius Lester, author and photographer
"The great success of Keystone Korner comes from the relationships between the waiters and bartenders, the musicians, the people who visit the club, the owners, and the managers. That success is evidenced by the intimate photographs and the memories captured in this book. In looking at these strikingly imaginative framed portraits, I can only imagine the sounds, the lighting and the emotions of the time. The text reads like ambient sound, which I believe makes this such a remarkable project."
—Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University—Tisch School for the Arts
"The book is a kaleidoscope of verbal and pictorial images by an articulate group of jazz players, club employees, and some who merely hung out for the listening....Its raison d’etre is largely dependent on [Kathy Sloane's] striking images."
—Duncan Schiedt, Author, jazz historian, and photographer
"Kathy Sloane’s book beautifully captures an important period in time reflecting local, and national cultural history. These images and interviews in Keystone Korner reflect a creative environment, and a rich musical heritage that might have been lost if not for Sloane’s passion and vision."
—Lewis Watts , University of California Santa Cruz, Harlem of the West
"...a welcome and much-needed addition to the documentation of jazz in America."
—Hank O'Neal, record producer, photographer, and author of The Ghosts of Harlem, among many other books
