Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.

[Dmitry]

Let's add to the list.

The two that come to mind immediately:

Miles Davis - painting (I think he started in later years of his life).

Tony Bennett - painting (not a fan of his pictures, but the man does who he wants)

Roscoe Mitchell also paints. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-jazz-icon-roscoe-mitchell-painter-20230201-blplkdtp7nedzp2xlbqzvk6uia-story.html

https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/roscoe-mitchells-kaleidoscopic-artwork/

[John Tapscott]

I believe Pee Wee Russell was a painter. 

[felser]

The great flautist Lloyd McNeill also studied with Pablo Picasso and won several photography awards.  From his obituary:  "McNeill published two volumes of poetry, including “Blackline: A Collection of Poems, Drawings, and Photographs,” and “After the Rain: A Collection of New Poems.” In 2001, he was chosen by the USPS to design a postage stamp for the celebration of Kwanzaa in 2009.".

[Chuck Nessa]

20 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

I believe Pee Wee Russell was a painter.

As was his Chicago compatriot George Wettling.

[clifford_thornton]

Roscoe, yep! That book is tremendous. Also,

Bill Dixon

Richard "Dickie" Landry (an accomplished painter and photographer as well as saxophonist)

Michael Snow (painter, sculptor, filmmaker, pianist, trumpeter)

Marzette Watts (studied painting at the Sorbonne)

Rob Mazurek

Peter Brötzmann

Peter Kowald

Sven-Åke Johansson

A.R. Penck (known more as a painter but also recorded prolifically as a drummer, keyboardist, and bassist)

Alfred 23 Harth 

Rodrigo Amado (great photographer in addition to being a heck of tenor player). Vandermark is also an excellent photographer.

Ornette

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[jlhoots]

Probably doesn't count - but Joni Mitchell.

[njtw]

Han Bennink

 

[clifford_thornton]

Muhal Richard Abrams

Milford Graves (kinetic sculpture)

also going the other way, referencing Penck above, there was the Artist's Jazz Band in Toronto (of which Snow was a member) and the Park Place Gallery jazz band (unrecorded 60s free jazz ensemble comprised of sculptors and painters associated with the gallery). 

yes to Bennink, thanks for the reminder. Also, Misha Mengelberg was loosely associated with Fluxus in its Amsterdam satellite. I don't know how much visual work he did (the ICP 002 maze was his, IIRC) but he was part of that scene in the mid-60s.

Keith Rowe (not sure if you want to call him a jazz musician per se) 

[clifford_thornton]

Peter Ind

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Bob Thompson (painter) also played drums a bit. He was close with Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp, Ornette, Don Cherry, and others.

[mjazzg]

Tony Oxley

Alan Davie, but probably the other way round

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[Simon8]

Gil Mellé

      


 

[clifford_thornton]

8 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Tony Oxley

Alan Davie, but probably the other way round

correct, thanks for the reminder about Davie. I have one of his prints actually.

Mellé is cool. I don't know the size of his works, and wonder if any/how many were done outside the context of album design.

[Larry Kart]

Roscoe Mitchell paints

[jazztrain]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

As was his Chicago compatriot George Wettling.

Wettling studied with Stuart Davis. Wettling took art lessons from him and gave drum lessons to Stuart Davis in return. 

[mjazzg]

Shabaka Hutchings occasionally posts his artwork on his instagram

[sidewinder]

Kate Westbrook - and Mike as well I think.

[mikeweil]

German jazz  drummer Ralf Hübner was a painter. Guitarist Volker Kriegel, also cartoons and children's books, IIRC.

What about Daniel Humair and Hans Koller?

[Dmitry]

1 hour ago, Simon8 said:

Gil Mellé

      


 

Great call! How could I've forgotten! He was a true Renaissance man. I think he was also a President of the American antique microscope collectors society, or something equally esoteric. 

This begs for an addendum: let's see the album covers featuring paintings, drawings, or sculpture (let's throw in the architecture also. After all it is one of the Great Arts) by jazz musicians.

[sidewinder]

Ian Dury also trained in fine art (and did the cover art on my A B Spellman Book).

[Steve Reynolds]

Paul Dunmall

not a jazz musician but Keith Rowe is a long time visual artist with much of his art on numerous AMM album covers as well as his own releases

3 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Paul Dunmall

not a jazz musician but Keith Rowe is a long time visual artist with much of his art on numerous AMM album covers as well as his own releases

I noticed that Clifford had indeed mentioned Keith Rowe

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[Д.Д.]

Ivo Perelman

Daniel Humair

[Dmitry]

 

[Д.Д.]

Stretching the definition of a jazz musician, Frank Zappa used to paint when he was young:

 

 

[jazzbo]

I'm amazed that he hasn't come up yet.

And the excellent drummer George Wettling was also a painter.

[sidewinder]

Clarinetist Wally Fawkes and trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton - cartoonists.