Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Blowin’ in the Wind, Wall Of Sound Gallery is proud to present, for the first time ever and as a European exclusive, the Dylan Before Dylan exhibition with the historic photography of Joe Alper. Like last year with the Art Kane show, the editing, the restoration of the original negatives as well as the printing have been made at our gallery, in Alba, with the loving supervision of Edward Elbers, manager of the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC. At last these fabulous images are now available via Wall Of Sound Gallery to collectors and fans everywhere in numbered and stamped editions. Joe Alper’s history as a folk, blues and jazz photographer as well as friend of a very young Bob Dylan, is absolutely unique. Read more about it here. The show also features an impressive selection of Alper’s images of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Joan Baez with her sister Mimi and her husband Richard Farina, Pete Seeger, John Coltrane in the recording studio with producer Bob Thiele, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Charlie Mingus with Max Roach, Howlin’ Wolf, Joe Zawinul, Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten, Big Joe Williams. A show certainly not to be missed.

Today celebrated Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini paid a visit to our gallery. While in Alba to receive a special award, he took the opportunity to visit our Gaber. E sogno e rido e vivo exhibition. In this photo, squeezed so to speak between Guido Harari (left) and Francesco (right), you can see Edward Elbers, manager of the Joe Alper PHoto Collection LLC. Edward has been spending a week at the gallery to supervise the restoration of Joe Alper’s original negatives as well as the printing operations for the upcoming Dylan Before Dylan exhibition which will open on May 16 and run till July 21. Francesco being a huge Dylan fan, he was delighted to be shown the first print proofs by Edward. Photo by Bruno Murialdo.