Bad jazz art.

[Big Beat Steve]

2 hours ago, Dmitry said:

That's the kind of stuff Guy Peellaert did in the field of rock music more than 40 years ago (anybody remember "Rock Dreams"?)

The jury is still out on whether this really is art (or even "high" art) but it can be fun to look at. But it can become kitschy too.

And sticklers for detail will wonder whether '46-48 DeSoto taxis were actually still in use in NY at all (I doubt it) when Miles and Trane could have hopped into one at the time they looked like this - and whether cars typically parked at the curb were THAT old.

Edited February 20, 2017 by Big Beat Steve

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Cyril said:

This is the famous 'Victory Boogie Woogie' !

Albeit unfinished. 

[Cyril]

Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Boogie_Woogie

 

Edited February 20, 2017 by Cyril

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

 

Yet I always failed to see the point why he had to use a photo of Bird as a basis that - certainly not without reason - was captioned in "Bird Lives" as "Tired, fat, disenchanted and looking ten or fifteen years older ...a very played out Bird." 

 

Because it was for the cover of a 1952 album, when Bird had only three years left to live.

[Big Beat Steve]

Thats not quite what I meant. What I meant was what would have kept DSM from using a somewhat more ... well ... positive photo as the model for doing this drawing? Such photos did exist, particularly from that session, and could have been worked into that collage just as well.

(Yes I know I am talking from a perspective of hindsight, but still ... )

 

[duaneiac]

8 hours ago, BillF said:

Piet Mondrian, "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (1942-43)

For some reason, instead of boogie woogie, this painting makes me think of Pac-Man . . .

Edited February 21, 2017 by duaneiac

[Dmitry]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

Albeit unfinished. 

How can you tell?

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Dmitry said:

How can you tell?

Compare the finish of the two boogie woogie paintings. Masking tape, used during painting, is still in place in the later work.

Perhaps this might suit you better:

[Dmitry]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

Compare the finish of the two boogie woogie paintings. Masking tape, used during painting, is still in place in the later work.

 

Maybe it's master tape, not masking tape... Has anyone tried playing it? Could be some bitchin' boogie-woogie.

Love the human sax player! The shading of her dress evokes Hokusai.  Now that's art.Great find!

 

 

Guess who this is.

Edited February 21, 2017 by Dmitry

[Hardbopjazz]

This one is not that bad.  

[Dmitry]

Rollins is decent.

Unlike this beauty. You should see what's inside the gatefold jacket.

[Big Beat Steve]

Very, very 60s-ish ....

[sonnymax]

23 hours ago, Cyril said:

Eye of the beholder. I like Debra Hurd's paintings. I even bought a print from her a few years ago. Not bad art, just not your cup of tea.

[Cyril]

1 hour ago, Hardbopjazz said:

This one is not that bad.  

This is a beautiful painting of Sonny. I only miss the color red.  

9 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Maybe it's master tape, not masking tape... Has anyone tried playing it? Could be some bitchin' boogie-woogie.

Love the human sax player! The shading of her dress evokes Hokusai.  Now that's art.Great find!

 

 

Guess who this is.

Very nice colors, but .......not a good Mingus. (?)

 

[Dmitry]

1 hour ago, Cyril said:

This is a beautiful painting of Sonny. I only miss the color red.  

Very nice colors, but .......not a good Mingus. (?)

 

I maybe wrong, but I don't think it's a painting. Looks like a print. 

Not Mingus, but also starts with an M.

[Cyril]

38 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

I maybe wrong, but I don't think it's a painting. Looks like a print. 

 

I think you're right. With an M? He he looks familiar to me....Pffff.....

MONK

Edited February 21, 2017 by Cyril

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Cyril said:

I think you're right. With an M? He he looks familiar to me....Pffff.....

MONK

http://www.johannadenzinger.com/closeups/tmonk.html

[felser]

Outside of jazz and onto folk-rock, but this Richie Havens album cover has given me nightmares for 45 years:

[Niko]

there's not only the Monk...

http://www.johannadenzinger.com/gallery_coolcats.html

 

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Dmitry said:

I maybe wrong, but I don't think it's a painting. Looks like a print. 

You are right: "'Sonny Rollins' (Linoleum Block Print w/ Photoshop)". Source: http://pitilli.blogspot.de/2011/12/un-blogged-in-2011.html 

[JSngry]

Neitehr bad, nor jazz, nor art. Just knock know, who's there, i don't know, i don't know who, hell, ifyou don't care about the future, what could will you be after it's already answered the door for you, huh?

Hey, have a cup of magma and relax, ok?

[Dmitry]

 

2 hours ago, Cyril said:

I think you're right. With an M? He he looks familiar to me....Pffff.....

MONK

 

2 hours ago, optatio said:

http://www.johannadenzinger.com/closeups/tmonk.html

Lulz 

[JSngry]

More teeth than god has hired hands!

[Dmitry]

39 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Neitehr bad, nor jazz, nor art. Just knock know, who's there, i don't know, i don't know who, hell, ifyou don't care about the future, what could will you be after it's already answered the door for you, huh?

Hey, have a cup of magma and relax, ok?

Stan Kenton?

[JSngry]

The one and ownly!