Jazz

Django

It's Jazz day on Drawbridge, so I drew my personal favorite jazz musician, Django Reinhardt. I was first introduced to the music of Django when a friend of mine gave me a tape of the Dave McKean mini movie, "The Week Before", about what god did the week before he created the universe. It was entirely set to the amazing guitar of Django, and I was hooked. If you can find it, watch it.

Jazz

I don't know much about jazz. But a few weeks ago we went out to a jazz club with friends and saw the Charles Mingus tribute band, Mingus Dynasty. I was pretty much blown away by how jazz illustrates out the human experience...without words. I also thought the trombone player was awesome. And then when he started singing, the whole crowd lost it.

Tyler Chin-Tanner - Jazz Transformer

All the Jazz

I was gonna do a portrait of Louis Armstrong , but I just doodled this instead.

"Jazz" (BATMAN)

Remember when my one time collaborator Gerard Jones did that Batman mini series called "BATMAN JAZZ?" I do. It was illustrated by MARK BADGER!

Anyway, this is an image from that series.
yep, I made the theme "Jazz" into an excuse to
draw Batman! It was that or Queen. You remember their album called Jazz, right?