SPINADELIC

Best-selling jazz album of all time. Sunday morning mainstay. Modal and moody and wonderful. Miles and Bill Evans and Coltrane and Cannonball.

Christian McBride cooks at the best jazz club in the world - the Village Vanguard! A quartet of bass, drums, sax and trumpet throw out dense ideas in the basement.

Pharaoh Sanders takes jazz to a spiritual plane.

I did a painting of Sonny, and there's a t-shirt of that, but this is the initial sketch colored in some. I can't decide which one I like the best....

The guitar stylist presented in a quirky style.

Sometimes (with the benefit of absolute hindsight) I like to imagine the hubbub Ornette caused among jazz and music fans....

From his last tour of the galaxy.

Descend the creaky steps. Sit in the lap of the drummer.

Marching that big hunk of metal down the street, shaking windows along the way....

You can FEEL a bass drum in your insides and teeth and everything.

His every note is a joyous pearl.

Mainly George, but Ira's along for the ride.

This is the full painting.

Post-bop pianist, songwriter and seeker.

This sign must have hung above the Vanguard for decades and decades. The rust had such character.

Saxophone colossus.

I mean you couldn't have come up with a better description of him than Melodious Thunk.

The greatest jazz club in the world.

Leaving the speedway you encounter brass bands in every direction - and that's a good thing!

Nothing quite like hearing a brass band in New Orleans before you can see it, and when it comes into view the big ol' marching tuba's the first thing you spot.

Fender Telecasters have a unique feel and sound. Yessir.

Composer, bass player, social critic.