Category Archives: jazz
AfteRain See Chelsea Sea
Did a Birthday Art Crawl Friday and actually had a nice time talking to people in the Picasso show and running into old friends from the Allan Stone Gallery. It felt the Neo Good Old Days… and boy could that Picasso fucker paint. It was one of those rainy Chelsea spring days where you somtimes have to duck into a little pub for a whiskey while the rain blows over. It reminded me of this Coltrane song and also this older vide with The Velvets and Nico doing Chealsea girl. 2006 I think. It was raining then too.
Hanging Myself
Colossusteps
Sea Made Tail
Miles From Here
The Loneliest Monk
The video is an experiment using piano notes from various Monk vids I pulled off of Youtube. I was watching Straight No Chaser last night and I’d always felt that certain moments in a Monk performance are like shards of colored glass from stained glass window… they sort of hang out there all alone. I wondered if it might not be fun to try and reassemble them into some new abstract shape. It would be an interesting electronic instrument that allowed you to play notes and video clips of you favorite musicians. It seems somehow related to how I’m using the page layouts of the Time Life book of Collectibles as a back bone for abstract paintings.