Böcker av Lee Jaffe

In his new book, Jaffe pulls back the curtain to reveal an intimate glimpse of Bob Marley and the Wailers during their rise to notoriety from 1971-73, a socially and politically transformative period in Jamaican history. Lee Jaffe is a cross-disciplinary visual artist, musician and poet who captured extremely intimate photographs of Bob Marley and The Wailers during the last three years that they performed together. After their initial introduction in their mutual friend Chris Blackwell's room at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Jaffe went on to forge a close creative partnership and friendship with Marley and eventually lived with him and his wife, Rita, in Jamaica. A first-hand witness to the birth of reggae music, he even had the opportunity to perform on stage and produce music in the studio with Marley and his band as well as travel extensively with them through rural Jamaica, London, Los Angeles, and New York. Throughout their time together, Jaffe consistently captured portraits that offer an intimate view of the lives of these legendary performers, revealing both their struggles and successes against the backdrop of a politically and socioeconomically turbulent Jamaica. His photographs accompanied by his first-person accounts and stories provide music fans with key moments that inspired some of Marley's most beloved lyrics and songs.

This story is a modern bildungsroman—the story of a young man searching for himself in turbulent times. Either by remarkable coincidence or Divine navigation, Lee Jaffe's curiosities and passions place him next to a parade of legendary artists who went on to change the world. Among those who he came to know and work with were Hélio Oiticica, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jaffe even ended up playing with Marley and Wailers at venues including Madison Square Gardens.Jaffe’s determination to establish himself as an artist is a constant throughout these pages but little else was planned. Written with the rich detail and acute ear of a Studs Terkel profile, Jaffe’s story provides the reader with a front row seat on some of the most magical moments of artistic production in NYC, Jamaica, London, and Rio de Janeiro.

In this book, Lee Jaffe argues that comparisons of all approaches to talking cures, and decisions about the choice of treatment for a given patient can be grounded in an understanding of the essential ways that each therapeutic procedure works.