Jazz in Watercolors 2020

Lockdown 2020: I am, so I paint ! 

 

Among many other activities , did a lot of watercolors now compiled with great music on a video ; if of any interest for you or friends/family to embellish empty walls ,do contact me!

 

 video by zimprod

Lester Bowie

 

Miles Davis' Smokin'

                                                                      Miles Davis  Smokin'
 

George Adams Quartet

 

                                                            George Adams Quartet  Rome 1975

Sun rise on a cloudy morning at the Stapel Shipyard at Spaarndam near Haarlem Netherlands

 

Trio Sam Rivers, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul during a newport Jazz Festival concert

 

Beautiful Girl playing her Cello the Way she like it

Something different then JAZZ: the port of New York, many years ago from a B/W picture taken at sunset or sunrise with vapors from the Hudson river and ships. 
more on chapter New York 

just watched and listened to the Big Band of Archie Shepp on Art Songs and Negro Spirituals , a concert made by Franck Cassenti !

And became inspired for a new watercolor of the great drummer Hamid Drake!

Hamid did 3 concerts in 2011 during the festival of Jazz à Junas !

              Sam Rivers

My Attempt to mingle Free Jazz with Abstract Expressionism both great Art Forms of" Libre Improvisation"

Archie Shepp

Happy Birthday Mr. Archie Shepp

Tribute to John Coltrane; Archie Shepp, saxophone, 

Richard Davis double bass and Billy Hart drums

The Jazz Loft Project  in New York

Mr. Archie Shepp meets Mr. Archie Shepp !
photographer unknown to me, but incognito : many thanks for the pic I have used! .

Larry Rivers, abstract american painter and baritone saxophonist made a great painting of The Drummer, which was exposed at the Musee du Quai Branly for The Siecle du Jazz Exhibition in 2009 .Bruno Charavet, french jazz photographer allowed me to use his great painting of Simon Goubert, drummer, to paint my vision of a 'Larry Rivers Drummer' Great fun to do et grand merci à Bruno Charavet If interested by the Life of Larry Rivers, read his biograph: 'What Did I Do?