Post-Dispatch critic reviews jazz photo exhibit at the Sheldon Art Galleries

In other jazz-related news from the Post-Dispatch, visual arts critic David Bonetti has reviewed the exhibit of jazz photos by Herb Snitzer now on display at the Sheldon Art Galleries, calling it "the most engrossing" of the three shows currently running there. Read the whole thing online here.

As an aside, though Bonetti may know his stuff about visual art, he's apparently quite a bit less well informed about music, as his review calls the late 1950s and early 1960s - the time when Snitzer took the photos now on exhibit at the Sheldon - "the twilight of an art form." Many jazz fans, yr. humble editor included, would disagree fervently with this assessment, and a professional critic from any discipline ought to know better that to confuse commercial popularity, or the lack thereof, with aesthetic and artistic merit. By tacitly admitting his ignorance of all the great jazz music recorded since then, and the many jazz artists who continue to do significant work today, Bonetti undermines his own credibility and does a disservice to his readers and to the jazz community.