xenophora's photos with the keyword: jazz

Shown smaller than the original completed size of 4000 X 4000 pixels. Here comes Charlie... ;)

OK, it's No. 5, but the pretend wood almost forms a "4." I guess that's because it's now Passover, the season of the Four Questions. In an essay about Charlie Parker, the critic Leonard Feather remembered how the great Jazzman admired Beethoven, because "He shook his fist at the world. They just didn't understand." So I added a snippet of the 4th Symphony, too. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 4200 X 3675 pixels.

Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2700 X 3900 pixels. See one original source here .

I'm pleased with the background crosshatch effect here. It's a combination of the "Colored pencil" filter and squares of white knit wool, in closeup. Shown at its original size of 1016 X 1016 pixels. See one of the original sources here .

The idea popped into my head while I was enjoying another listen to Charlie Parker: Live At The Royal Roost . So naturally the colors and canvas proportions came more or less from the LP's cover. Yes, I know Parker didn't play the tenor. But I didn't have all that many images of musical instruments in my swipe file. :o I did give it that white tint as a nod to his famous plastic Grafton, though. Shown smaller than the original finished size of 2539 X 2539 pixels. One of several original sources is viewable here .