Background
Valerie Sybil Wilmer was born on December 7, 1941, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Valerie Wilmer
(Vibrant photographs of such performers as Duke Ellington,...)
Vibrant photographs of such performers as Duke Ellington, Otis Rush, and B. B. King, combined with their own words, provide insight into the world of the black musician from the backwoods of Mississippi to New Orleans, New York, and Chicago.
https://www.amazon.com/Face-Black-Music-Photographs-Valerie/dp/030680039X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Valerie+Wilmer&qid=1608023571&sr=8-2
1976
(Surveys the innovative musicians of recent American jazz,...)
Surveys the innovative musicians of recent American jazz, the role of women in music, and jazz's future.
https://www.amazon.com/As-Serious-Your-Life-Story/dp/0882081128/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Valerie+Wilmer&qid=1608023571&sr=8-4
1981
(Valerie Wilmer's 1970 classic, Jazz People, has long been...)
Valerie Wilmer's 1970 classic, Jazz People, has long been considered one of the three or four finest books ever written on jazz. Featuring extensive interviews with fourteen jazz geniuses, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner, and Archie Shepp, Wilmer captures the essential qualities of each artist in her interviews, providing deeply moving portraits - in words and in photographs - of the often troubling lives of the musicians who changed the shape of jazz in the fifties and sixties.
https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-People-paperback-Valerie-Wilmer/dp/0306804344/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Valerie+Wilmer&qid=1608023571&sr=8-3
1991
(In this classic account of the new black music of the 196...)
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Your-Life-Revolution-1957-1977/dp/1788160711/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Valerie+Wilmer&qid=1608023571&sr=8-1
2018
Photographer photojournalist writer
Valerie Sybil Wilmer was born on December 7, 1941, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Valerie Wilmer began her life in the jazz world by listening to pre-war recordings of jazz classics. Three years after these explorations in sound, she began writing about Black music, encouraged and inspired by Max Jones, Paul Oliver, and others.
Valerie Wilmer attended the School of Photography at Regent Street Polytechnic in London (1959-1960).
Valerie Wilmer is as important a photographer as she is a writer, having worked with hundreds of singers, jazz musicians, and writers, and she has taken noted photographs of artists such as Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Duke Ellington.
Her photographs were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the 1973 exhibition Jazz Seen: The Face of Black Music, and form part of the V&A's photographic collection. Her photographs are also held in the National Portrait Gallery collection. With Maggie Murray, Valerie Wilmer founded Format, the first all-women photographers' agency in Britain, in 1983.
(In this classic account of the new black music of the 196...)
2018(Valerie Wilmer's 1970 classic, Jazz People, has long been...)
1991(Surveys the innovative musicians of recent American jazz,...)
1981(Vibrant photographs of such performers as Duke Ellington,...)
1976