Giant Step Arts

As a longtime professional photographer who has documented 550 recording sessions and shot over 200 magazine covers, Jimmy Katz spent countless hours in recording studios over the past 30 years, hobnobbing with top engineers while on assignment. A lifelong jazz fan with the utmost respect for the musicians he photographs, Katz decided to pool his resources in starting up his own innovative nonprofit jazz label, Giant Step Arts, which he launched in January of 2018. While maintaining his career as an esteemed photographer—he has published seven books of his iconic portraits and had one-man shows in Vienna, Berlin, Rotterdam, Perugia, …