Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Vent

The piquant photographer DAVID REDFERN passed at his home in France in November, 2014.  The British-born great –he was well over 6 feet tall– took some of the iconic images in all of jazz history.  Some of them adorn album covers, front covers  of magazines, newspapers of the world and U.S. Postage Stamps, of which I am a collector.  While he dabbled in rock, folk and blues his forte was jazz.  (You can get all  those details from the numerous obits in the major publications the world over.  But this is personal.)