xenophora's photos with the keyword: music

Slipping in one last work in the last few minutes of the year. :D Thanks for all your visits, likes, and comments. I appreciate what you contribute, too. Looking forward to more good things in 2025. <3 Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3000 X 1966 pixels. See one original source here .

The return of Nina Ballerina! Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3500 X 3500 pixels.

"All you've gotta' do is let me love you, Play music with me, I'll sing for you. It's so easy, you just have to want to... You play for me, and I'll sing for you..." The rough for this was very somber, full of dark purple and stark white and frowning mouths. I have no idea what went wrong. :D "I Sing For You" is from 1992's *Potato Radio* CD by the amazing Jazz artists Nancy King (b.1940) and Glen Moore (b.1941). (music link) Best New Year's wishes to everyone who stopped by in 2023. Thanks so much. <3 [minor edits made 1/12/24]

I was so close to adding an actual photo of Bird himself. No. 10 will probably get that, when it's eventually made. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 1550 X 3023 pixels. See one original source here .

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Sorry that I've been remiss in visiting everyone. I'll try to do better next month. :o Shown smaller than the original completed size of 5000 X 3250 pixels. See one original source here .

Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2500 X 2500 pixels. A lucky random use of the "Extrude" filter made that "graph paper" background, though I didn't line the segments up perfectly. D'oh!!

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

Billy Preston was a Virgo, so I included a snippet from the Virgo constellation up top. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 3600 X 5250 pixels. "Outa Space," 1971.

(Song/title reference, for the curious) Shown smaller than the original completed size of: 4575 X 2550 pixels. See one original source here .

The "AABA" is a nod to the chorus of the Gershwins' "I Got Rhythm." Charlie Parker and other Jazz musicians used as a foundation for their own compositions. (per Wikipedia) Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2400 X 1800 pixels. See one original source here .

"Listen to my song, ladies, please take strictly understand Don't let no outside woman make no biscuits for your man..." -- Memphis Minnie/M. McCoy (1897-1973) Shown slightly smaller than the completed size of 1350 X 1650 pixels. See one original source here .

They should really be electric guitars. But I didn't have any of those in my clipping files. :o Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2280 X 1275 pixels. See one original source here .

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.

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Just playing a bit with the "Distort: Shear" filter. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 1772 X 1181. See one source here .

"Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?..." -- Billy Preston (1946-2006) (link) Shown smaller than the original finished size of 2244 X 2244 pixels. See one original source here .