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Sunday, May 28, 2023

Neal Adams / The Sketch Book


Recently I purchased   "Neal Adams/The Sketchbook" on line.  I received my copy just a few days ago by mail. I was very much impressed as a whole and greatly enjoyed it! The book's editor and designer Arlan Shumer asked me to write a review of his book to post at his " Neal Adams Almanac" page on Facebook after finding out I had written one for Amazon.  Here’s that brief review:


"Neal Adams/The Sketchbook"

Previously unpublished originals by the great Neal Adams are seen here publicly, many for the first time. Adam’s powerful, emotional and heroic works are vivid reminders of his phenomenal talents. The untouched works by the artist's hand, heart and mind are enhanced by the distinctive editing of historian Arlen Schumer. Schumer uses Neal’s words from private interviews they shared while leaving out his questions. This makes for a most unique, insightful and flowing literary experience. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, while always informative. The text often has the feel of an informal, relaxed seminar of sorts on Neal’s favorite subjects; comic books and creativity.



Neal Adams for most considered himself a story teller rather than an artist. That being the case; story telling is a grand tradition and he is among the most “artful” of the form. While at the same time; this volume exists and can also be enjoyed as a look at the portfolio of the master draftsman he was, one of the best of the creative geniuses of our times.















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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Selected Works by Helen Frankenthaler GAGOSIAN










 “My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates, and not nature per se. But a feeling of an order that is associated more with nature; nature in seasons. And I think art itself is order out of chaos.”

                                                                    Helen Frankenthaler

















HELEN FRANKENTHALER

Drawing within Nature: Paintings from the 1990s

March 9–April 22, 2023

541 West 24th Street, New York



Saturday, April 1, 2023

WEATHER REPORT






















With the recent passing of Wayne Shorter (March 2nd of this year) the iconic Jazz Fusion Band Weather Report has lost the third of it’s core and most influential members. First there was the untimely passing of Jaco Pastorious ( Sept. 1987) followed next within days of exactly  twenty  years later by his fellow Joe Zawinul (Sept. 2007.) These three seminal musicians, each were individually profound as well as collectively. Each musician a ground breaker for their chosen instrument and in their collaborative achievements when they came together as Weather Report. Mr. Shorter for saxophone, Mr. Pastorious, electric bass and thirdly Mr. Zawinul, key boardest. They mastered music and created sounds and thematic themes comparable to the world’s greatest music. They  crossed, mixed and created  forms, genres and styles within their efforts. And in the passage of time their legends have grown and continue to flourish.

The men of Weather Report were visionaries and artistic explorers in a very real sense. They inter-acted and played with the greats of their times; Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Pat Methany, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana and Esperanza Spalding to name a few. They played with and composed hit music for other recording artist that would become modern standards; Mercy/Mercy/Mercy, Birdland and Steely Dan’s Aja’.  Earth, Wind & Fire, Patrice Rushen and The Manhattan Transfer are among luminaries featured on their albums. They loved and were dedicated to literature, philosophy, the arts and sciences. It is all reflected in their music and life pursuits. Their music resides among the most imaginative, innovative, challenging and beautiful the world yet knows.   
















               Jaco Pastorious                          Joe Zawinul                         Wayne Shorter

This blog is a celebration of these artist’s lives and what they have given the world. For such accomplished artist of their sort nothing speaks more eloquently or profoundly for them than their recordings. I have included links to some of their most stunning music along with the gorgeous album covers that house it.  Here as tribute to their greatness I hope you will enjoy!


 Mr. Gone  “Young & Fine” 




8:30   "A Remark You Made"



Heavy Weather   "Palladium"






Procession   "Where the Moon Goes"




Night Passage   "Three Views of a Secret"




Weather Report   "When It Was Now"