I was watching a couple of video tracks of Dr. Lonnie Smith on his Hammond B3. Visually I couldn’t resist drawing him. He found his way from Lackawanna, New York to the Jazz stages of the world looking spectacularly like … Read More
I’m reading a Graham Greene novel, Brighton Rock. It was first published in 1938 so it’s truly old school crime fiction. I’m reading the Vintage Classic edition, 2004, and it has a fascinating introduction by J.M. Coetzee who writes about … Read More
I was reading a memorial piece by David Remnick in the New Yorker on the passing of Michael Crawford http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/remembering-an-adored-cartoonist. Remnick wrote that when Crawford passed away at his home surrounded by friends and family Cannoball Adderley’s rendition of “Autumn … Read More