Jazz Greats from the Lens of Jack Bradley Debut at New Exhibit

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04 October 2025 – EASTHAM, MA – Jack Bradley said it was impossible to take a bad picture of Louis Armstrong – and for nearly 20 years, Cape Cod native Jack Bradley was part of his music idol’s inner circle, creating photography that captured both Armstrong and an extended circle of jazz greats.

Now some of the never before published images of this extended circle form a new exhibit at Imaging Workspace Gallery in Eastham. The exhibit runs through December.

Who was Jack Bradley?

As a young man Jack Bradley, a Cotuit native, met his musical idol Louis Armstrong. He began making photos of the jazz scene and because a close friend of the iconic musician. Bradley’s collected work of Louis Armstrong forms the The Jack Bradley Collection  at the Louis Armstrong House in New York. Bradley died at in 2021 the age of 87.

What is the new exhibit?

The the prints currently on display at the Imaging Workspace Gallery draw from Bradley’s additional thousands of related jazz scene images. Michael Persico, musican and archivist of the Jack Bradley Collection, worked with master printmaker Bob Korn to identify a currated set of of images and  turned the negatives into nuanced black and white large scale prints.  The exhibit the the Imaging Workspace Gallery in Eastham runs through December.

For more information:

• The Jack Bradley Collection at the Louis Armstrong House
• Classic Jazz Visions, a nonprofit sharing the work of Jack Bradley
• The Imaging Workspace Gallery