Jazz & Visual Art/Alain Kirili

Here's a Basquiat jazz thing:



On another jazz/visual culture note: one of my dad's good friends, Alain Kirili, is a sculptor, and he does a lot of his work with jazz musicians. Here is a link the Music/Sculpture section of his website: http://www.kirili.com/pagesE/Music.htm

He says that "Jazz and Sculpture are created urgently. Extreme risk is the minimum condition of this creation, the absolute measure of the musician and sculptor... Revival of verticality in my sculpture is linked to statuary, music and dance."

He has musicians over to his studio and they play while he sculpts.







Here's an installation of his in Paris called "Hommage to Charlie Parker"



Here is a video that another artist made of him, and the French at the end is him reading "Charlie Parker's Blues," from Kerouac's Mexico City Blues!

http://www.c-egal.com/openwindow/film/quickkirili.htm