Last Friday, Hillsborough: Jazz Loft Project event

From 1957 to 1965, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York loft building with an amazing list of visitors, including jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers, and artists. In photographs and audio recording--he wired the building like a recording studio--he documented an era, as well as rare moments with Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali, and many others. The Jazz Loft Project, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, is devoted to preserving and cataloging Smith's recordings and photographs.At a Last Friday event in Hillsborough, NC, the photography/multimedia organization Daylight will host a Jazz Loft Project party at the Daylight Project Space, 121 W. Margaret Ln., Ste. D: There will be music until dusk, a multimedia screening, selected audio recordings, and a short presentation by Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson. Refreshments served; the event is free and open to the public.