JaZzArt en València

Two of the art forms that I truly love, Ballet and Jazz, so why not mix them up? After all Jazz music is as classical, complex and incredible as classical is. And I would say even better because Jazz has something that classical doesn’t, improvisation…

Here is the wood print of this brand new painting, whose image now is also a Fine Art Print, available only through Fine Art America, the only company I use to create, from my paintings and images, Fine Art Prints. Check out my galleries and you will find a very economical way to have original art works in your home or office.

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Remember this historical…and artistic…couple? Well this is my surreal-expressionist interpretation of their looks, intensity and personality. This is the acrylic print available only through Fine Art America, the only company I have entrusted my images to for them to create Fine Art prints. There are many ways to get your print on your wall or on other objects, check them out. Visit my galleries and visit often as I change the images frequently .

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Jazz is America’s classical movement and the greatest musical development of the XXth Century and here is my impression of a jamming Jazz group in living colour. This is the framed print, but Fine Art America, the only company I use to create prints from my artwork, offers «Colours of Jazz» in many other styles and in many other forms. Check out my gallery of images here and check it often as I change them frequently. Fine art prints are an inexpensive way to have original art in your home or office.

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Y la canción es «Just the Way You Are,» la balada de Billy Joel de 1977 del album The Stranger… Al oír el solo de saxofón de Phil Woods quedé encantado con el instrumento y de ahí a convertirme en un fan del jazz para toda la vida fue solo un pasito muy cortito…

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And the song is «Just the Way You Are,» Billy Joel’s ballad from 1977 from the album The Stranger… When I heard Phil Woods sax solo I was smitten with love for that instrument and from there to becoming a lifelong jazz fan was just a small step…

Phil Woods, saxofonista norteamericano nació en Springfield, Massachusetts en 1931. Estudio música en la Manhattan School of Music y en la prestigiosa Julliard School. En la década de los años 50 fue líder de varias bandas, tocó con Quincy Jones y con la banda de Dizzy Gillespie. En el 2005, Jazzed Media lanzó un documental de la vida de Woods titulado Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat – Portrait of a Jazz Legend. Phil Woods murió de enfisema a los 83 años de edad, el 29 de septiembre de 2015.

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Phil Woods, North American saxophonist was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1931. He studied music at the Manhattan School of Music and at the prestigious Julliard School. In the 1950’s he led his own bands and as well played with Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie. In 2005 Jazzed Media released a documentary about Woods titled Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat – Portrait of a Jazz Legend. Phil Woods died of emphysema at the age of 83 on the 29th of September 2015.

Aquí también os dejo una de las piezas mas populares de Phil Woods…

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Here is one of the more popular pieces by Phil Woods…

Gracias…

Cheers…

Decían, los supuestos «blancos» de EEUU,* que era la música de los negros y la despreciaban. Pero el Jazz acabó siendo el invento musical más importante del Siglo XX… Se tuvieron que meter la lengua en el culo…

A mi el amor a la música me llegó, no con el Jazz, con los Beatles. Después con toda la música rock. Fui rokero hasta que oi «Just the Way You Are,» la balada de Billy Joel en 1977 y el saxofón me encanto y me cautivo. Mi compañero de faena, en la mili, que era fan del Jazz, cuando le hablé del solo de saxofón de Phil Woods, (el que tocó en la canción), me dijo que lo conocía, que era jazzista y que si me gustaba el saxofón a quien tenía que escuchar era a Coltrane. Lo hice y eso bastó para hacerme fan del Jazz para toda la vida.

Ahora la trompeta, venga, eso es otra historia. Claro que siempre he conocido la música, la extraordinaria música, de Louis Armstrong, pero de los demás trompetistas no sabia mucho. Entonces en 1993 conocí a Arturo Sandoval, el trompetista cubano y me habló de Dizzy Gillespie, como Gillespie lo había ayudado a escapar de Cuba roja. Empecé a escuchar a Gillespie y a través de el a otros como Miles y empecé a desarrollar el mismo amor que le tenia al saxofón, a la trompeta…

Aquí os traigo a los que mas me gustan, pero entre los tantos otros que también me gustan están Nicholas Payton, King Oliver, Clark Terry et al…

The supposed «white people*» of the United States called it music for negroes and thought little of it, but Jazz became the most important musican invention of the XXth Century. They had to stick their tongue where the sun don’t shine…

My love for music came, not with Jazz, but with The Beatles, then with all of that the greatest era of rock music could offer. I was a rocker until I heard Billy Joel’s ballad «Just the Way You Are» in 1977. I told my buddy from the Army that I really dug on Phil Woods saxophone solo. He, being a Jazz enthusiast, told me he had heard of Woods, that he was a Be-Bop player and that if I liked the sax then I should be listening to Coltrane. I did and that was enough to make me a Jazz lover for life.

Now trumpet led Jazz, that’s another story. Of course I had always known of Louis Armstrong and liked his music, his extraordinary music, but I didn’t know much about the others. Then in 1993 I met Arturo Sandoval, the Cuban trumpet player and he spoke to me about Dizzy Gillespie and how Gillespie had helped him escape from communist Cuba. I started listening to his music and that led me towards a host of others and the love for the trumpet equalled the love for the sax…

Here are my main trumpets, but among all the others I like as well are musicians such as Nicholas Payton, King Oliver, Clark Terry et al…

* Digo que en EEUU clasifican a la gente de blanco, negro o de color y deciden quién es quién por el país donde han nacido, un sistema extrañísimo, discriminador y racista.

* In the US they classify people as white, black or coloured and they decide who is who according to the country where the people are from. A very strange, discriminating and racist approach.

Gracias…

Cheers…

A veces el pincel piensa por si mismo…

A veces algo se incorpora a uno y de las mismas neuronas señales emergen y los brazos a moverse y los dedos cogen el pincel y empieza así a convertirse el impulso en una pintura… raro, ¿No?

A veces las líneas convergen, a veces se separan, a veces se ensanchan y a veces se desaparecen en lo blanco del papel… Así es el arte a veces…

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Sometimes, the brush decides to go on its own…

Sometimes something comes over us and our neurons begin to emit signals and our arms move and our fingers grab the brush and the impulse begins to turn into a painting… Strange, no?

Sometimes lines converge, other times they separate, sometimes they grow thick and sometimes they disappear into the whiteness of the paper… That’s how art is sometimes…

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Predicar con el ejemplo… Hala, palabras, palabras, palabras… predican mucho pero obran poco… Como van a criar bien a sus hijos si los únicos ejemplos que les dan son los que ven en los videojuegos y no en sus padres… Igual que los políticos que hablan de ayudar al pueblo mientras son ellos los que se ayudan… ¿Donde están los buenos ejemplos?

People walk around (aimlessly) looking for the truth. Everyone wants the truth, but where do they search for this enigma? Well, most sit every morning in front of the tele to watch the morning news. And of course, the news is the main source of truth, no? Hell no! You can flip through all the channels and they are all saying the same thing, sometimes even at the same time. Doesn’t this sound like they are reading from a script? It does to me, especially when the only thing they talk about is the only news and nothing else happens in town or anywhere else. I call bullshit on that for sure. The news is theatre and the journalists…or presenters…are models and actors that can read well what is placed in front of them on the teleprompter…

But lies are cheap but they are worth a lot if they are well composed, prepared and launched strategically like tactical nukes. Don’t be fooled by thinking they might be lying to you, they are and their stories are composed by super-duper pros…

Lies are on the top of the food chain for politicians, for all of them. Of course one cannot generalise, so I will say, theoretically, and some for some more than others. But the desire to be in the limelight, the fame, the power, the money! Them there’s major motivators mate! Corruption then becomes a powerful magnet impossible to escape from…

Good grief, how many have come into power…and I am not referring solely to the US/UK?EU…saying that they are “of the people” and committed to eradicating poverty. Yes, but they didn’t tell you it was their poverty they were referring to…

But since their lies are composed artistically and well crafted taking pieces of truths from here and there, I thought I would conclude with a song from the 70’s whose name resembles the monster that these politicians create in their speeches…

Cheers…

Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Author at Spillwords
— Read on spillwords.com/author/franciscobravocabrera/

Presumptuous bits of subliminal fatuousness that while climbing a ladder to the moon,

manage to escape, like worms from rotting flesh do when the rain comes to flush out all indignities,

and become the words of love that wistful whispers transfers to the burning sun and far from the cool light of the ghostly moon.

C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 27 JUN 2023, Valencia, Spain

SO WHAT THE HELL IS A «EURO-KU?»

It is a way for a Westerner to create a poem in a style created by Easterners and still make it spiritual, interesting and meaningful. It is impossible for me to write like a Japanese poet. I have not experienced his history nor have been raised in his culture, therefore his thought process is unknown to me. But the simplicity, ephemeral nature and spirituality of the Haiku impress me.

So I invented on 02/02/2022 the Euro-Ku to solve that problem. I would use the structure of the traditional Haiku, but change a few things to make it fit into my idiosyncrasy. Here are the rules:

1. Three stanzas or verses (like the original Haiku) but the verses will have no syllabic restrictions. Write them as long as you want.
2. The verses must flow into each other coherently completing or continuing the initial phrase or thought. They must not be inconclusive or flow off into outer space.
3. The Euro-Ku must be accompanied with a unique, unedited image created by the author.

In the Americas I launched the Ameri-Ku, the exact same thing but written by those whose history, culture and background are from across the pond. And by the «Americas» I mean the entire continent, North, Central and Southern portions…

Cheers…