Jazz musicians who also paint and sculpt.

[mjazzg]

There are album covers featuring Herbert Joos graphic design. I think his work wasn't restricted to them

[optatio]

Martial Solal & The Danish Radio Orchestra: Contrastes. Storyville STCD 4242 [1999]

Cover painting by Daniel Humair

 

[optatio]

Peter Kowald

 

[optatio]

On 5/11/2023 at 3:29 PM, clifford_thornton said:

Yes, you're right about Brown. I've heard of but not seen that 1984 book.

 

Marion Brown: Recollections. Essays, Drawings, Miscellanea, Frankfurt a.M. 1984 (JAS), pp. 216-217

[mikeweil]

I have a large format calendar with his works - portraits of famous musicians based on photographs. I even had two of them framed in the living room for a while.

http://www.iliev.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/03/joosClarke.jpg

http://www.iliev.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/03/joosLewis40x60

https://www.booklooker.de/Bücher/Michael-Naura-Herbert-Joos+Miles-An-illustrated-Portrait/id/A02yHYBA01ZZb

https://www.kind-of-blue.de/seiten/joos.htm

Edited May 16, 2023 by mikeweil

[Teasing the Korean]

If you count Herb Alpert as jazz, then Herb Alpert.

If you don't count Herb Alpert as jazz, then not Herb Alpert.

And Johnny Frigo.

Edited May 13, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[Larry Kart]

Frigo also published a book of his poems.

[Teasing the Korean]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Frigo also published a book of his poems.

Frigo did a very nice Picasso Three Musicians knockoff in pastel.  

[mhatta]

Masahiko Togashi was actually a pretty good painter.  Some of his jacket designs were done by himself, and a retrospective exhibition was held in 2004.  I find it interesting that many excellent drummers are painters.

https://twitter.com/parusminor33/status/1492372955372081154?s=20

[Dmitry]

On 5/11/2023 at 5:01 PM, adh1907 said:

Wow, interesting. Where in NYC was she selling them and how did you come across her?  I assume the paintings were not expensive. 
 

Anthony 

London

Good question. I'm just repeating what I've read. A biography of Jutta Hipp has recently came out in Germany...in German.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31395846292&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Djutta%2Bhipp&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Here's my favorite of the three pictures of hers that I have. It's the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park, NYC. 

Interestingly, in the summer months, the site hosted many music acts, including jazz. 

 Program notes and ads in the New York Times showed “Jazz Under the Stars” at the Wollman Memorial Theatre in Central Park for fifteen consecutive days, from July 28 through August 11, 1957, with such stars as Billie Holiday, Chris Connor, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Maynard Ferguson, with commentary by Jean Shepherd and Al “Jazzbo” Collins. 
https://shepquest.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/jean-shepherd-chart-and-all-that-jazz/

Some of her artworks? including portraits of jazz greats, are held in the collection of the Institute for Jazz Studies at  Rutgers University.
https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/6/resources/194

 

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Dmitry

[adh1907]

8 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Good question. I'm just repeating what I've read. A biography of Jutta Hipp has recently came out in Germany...in German.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31395846292&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Djutta%2Bhipp&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Here's my favorite of the three pictures of hers that I have. It's the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park, NYC. 

Interestingly, in the summer months, the site hosted many music acts, including jazz. 

 Program notes and ads in the New York Times showed “Jazz Under the Stars” at the Wollman Memorial Theatre in Central Park for fifteen consecutive days, from July 28 through August 11, 1957, with such stars as Billie Holiday, Chris Connor, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Maynard Ferguson, with commentary by Jean Shepherd and Al “Jazzbo” Collins. 
https://shepquest.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/jean-shepherd-chart-and-all-that-jazz/

Some of her artworks? including portraits of jazz greats, are held in the collection of the Institute for Jazz Studies at  Rutgers University.
https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/6/resources/194

 

 

Thanks Dmitry. I have walked past that ice rink but didn’t know it had been used for jazz concerts in the 50s. Cool to have one of Jutta’s paintings.

[LWayne]

How about Oliver Lake?  Paintings, Sculptures, decorated canes.

Oh yeah, and some music too...

 

LWayne

 

[clifford_thornton]

On 5/12/2023 at 2:01 PM, mjazzg said:

There are album covers featuring Herbert Joos graphic design. I think his work wasn't restricted to them

Yes indeed, thanks for the reminder. This is an awesome thread.

[sgcim]

Dennis Elliot, the great jazz drummer for the UK band If, quit music entirely and became a sculptor.

Rick Laird, bass player at Ronnie Scott;s and later for The Mahavishnu Orchestra did the same thing, but he became a photographer.

[optatio]

On 5/14/2023 at 10:05 PM, LWayne said:

How about Oliver Lake?  Paintings, Sculptures, decorated canes.

Oh yeah, and some music too...

 

LWayne

 

Oliver Lake

https://www.galeriezurcher.com/oliver-lake

[Dmitry]

41 minutes ago, optatio said:

Oliver Lake

https://www.galeriezurcher.com/oliver-lake

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers

[Michael Weiss]

The bassist Gerald Cannon is quite prolific.

https://www.cannonmusicnart.com/gbasscleffgmailcom

[clifford_thornton]

John Lurie

Damon Smith

Vinny Golia

[clifford_thornton]

Paul Flaherty

Robert Ryman (painter) started out as a saxophonist & studied with Lennie Tristano

[colinmce]

The great and rather mysterious alto player Claude Lawrence has a wonderful youtube channel that features his playing and painting. He has only a few recordings with The Last Poets, Sirone, William Hooker, and an underheard trio date on CIMP with Wilbur Morris and Denis Charles.

https://www.youtube.com/@clawrencemx/videos

[clifford_thornton]

Oh yeah, didn't know about his painting, just his saxophone playing.

I'll add Alan Silva and Selwyn Lissack to the list.

[Dmitry]

Duke Ellington  - Portrait of Billy Strayhorn

Duke Ellington - Satin Doll

[Justin V]

On 5/21/2023 at 11:37 AM, colinmce said:

The great and rather mysterious alto player Claude Lawrence has a wonderful youtube channel that features his playing and painting. He has only a few recordings with The Last Poets, Sirone, William Hooker, and an underheard trio date on CIMP with Wilbur Morris and Denis Charles.

https://www.youtube.com/@clawrencemx/videos

Oooh, I'm intrigued based on the company he keeps.  Thanks for bringing him to my attention.

[clifford_thornton]

He has an exhibition in East Hampton, NY that just opened. Hopefully can make it out there in the next month (I rotate to the region for work periodically).

https://www.davidlewisgallery.com/exhibitions/claude-lawrence-free-jazz

[Dmitry]

Artie Shaw - ENIGMA