matadors and troubadours the sketch inspired by sandra flood artist...

matadors and troubadours...

Poetry
Connects
The constellations and everything else
And
Painting and Lily
Lilies
Monet madrigals Modigliani
Matadors and troubadours
Matisse
Miro and Ellington
Jazz
Connects
The constellations and everything else
The music is
The poetry is
The art is

Everything else

jean and jack two feet on the ground...

6 A.M. ...

6 A.M.
Wavy winds curls and flowers
Snow swirling
Singing
In the wisps in the Andes
The furnace is on
Coffee pen and paper
Hearing plows but no train whistle
Another plow just plows
Gusts and lights
I will be able to make an egg
Folded with Newman's Own mango salsa
Orange juice
And a walk with Jack
But not in Chopin's garden
Bach's?  Maybe?

kimberly is the eclectic lady, artfully so...

by Kimberly Ashby

paths...

Paths

Nights
And
Samba

And
Toast the gardens and songs of things

Go to where
Mingus plays piano

He plays piano too

Under the neon
Blue

No vacancy

painting and haiku by kimberly ashby...

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remembering Jack Stevens (1940-2003), a great friend and a great player. I miss him. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

the prez himself...

I say it, ready anytime
The Prez himself
Polka dots dots dots
And
Moonbeams sweet
Sweet
Daahr daahr daahr
Oh piano
His tenor some would say the greatest tenor ever lived
Aah
Lester Young ready anytime for something special
The Prez himself
Polka
Polka dots dots dots
And
Moonbeams

Sweet

seas fell into fall...

August dipped below the horizon
A summer day
And
Seas fell into fall

And September to November
Salt and waves and winter

And
December dipped below the horizon
And
Set

muse the sketch...

muse the poem...

Muse
A
Portrait go lightly
First takes
In black and white
Take
One
As in jazz
As in shades of gray
As in Muse
Green, purple and a Mingus bass solo
First takes!


*sketch and poem inspired by and hommage to the portrait photography of Claudio Cazzara.

beautiful writing by kimberly ashby to mark the cold day...

she by the bay paints
sea smoke at the golden hour
Come Close
Closer
                    Still.

edgy if it's going to be any good...

A new year is like a new sketchbook
Edgy if it's going to be any good

A new year!
Sketch a little kindness

Thelonious Monk rehearsing
Spinning

Kenton riffs

Edgy
This is how Johnny Hodges sounds
Aah boo dee aah aah bap! Bop!

More Kenton riffs
And Matisse and Matisse things

Sketch a little kindness
Bop!

for the new year...

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
                                              -Leonard Cohen

autobiographical...

Sandbars and sailboats
The Village and Baltimore horses
Mean
A
Lot
This morning
,
I suppose
Because
It is 2015