Steve, your comment re Eric Lewis and wanting to make images like he plays reminded me of how Swiss photographer Robert Frank whilst obviously citing Kerouac and 'On the Road' as an influence to his book The Americans was similarly inspired by the jazz of the time.
Kerouac wrote in the Forward of the book : "Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.

After Frank, both Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander in the early 60's listened to Coltrane and it's pretty easy to draw the links between the two media and a similar freeform style that appears incoherent at first but with effort and familiarity becomes a beautifully clear vision.

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Nick, you've made a really interesting link for me - I'm fascinated by the message of Keruoac, Easy Rider and other 'road' genres. Closer to home I like writers who work through our own landscape such as Sebald and Mabey - Will Self has referred to this kind of stuff as 'psycho-geography - the importance of place in our expression and art. I also relate it quite consciously to an ecologically-minded sense of the world. But... I'd never factored in the role played by jazz music as a link with this kind of work. Brilliant; thanks.