The Boston Globe, February 24th, 1998
Of the dozen or so jazz musicians whose photographs are hanging at Bob the Chef's, Miles Davis was the most intimidating, Boston photographer Lou Jones says. "Miles was in that period where he wasn't talking to anybody. And he had a vocal-cord problem. You had to get right up in his face to even be able to hear him. He really used that as a weapon," says Jones, who also recalled Charlie Mingus as "an especially irascible person." Jones hosted a reception at the restaurant last night for his show of portraits of jazz musicians he took in the 1970s. Jones arranged to take most of the photographs...
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