Bill Commerford

Newport Jazz Festival, Sunday, August 15, 2005

Jack, Kat and I spent Sunday at the NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL
Here are the watercolor notes painted or drawn during the day.

We caught the Cannonball Adderly Legacy band first and just to warm up I began
with a pen sketch. The crowds are always so much a part of the Festival ambience
and this tent held a great collection. We were seated just outside the tent and
just beyond the festival's folding chairs. On the bottom left you can see one guy
in the day's favorite style of folding chair with the cup holder on the right arm.

By the time Gary Burton set up I had a chance to break out the watercolors.
I love blue ball mallet's ends dancing over vibes, I tucked others around him.
The small image to the right is the live watercolor note made during the performance.
Today, Tueday August 16th, I worked into the notes at the dentist and in the studio.

We all moved over to the big stage and got this look from the walkway of Brubeck's Quartet
Chris Lydon and Jon Hammond practically tripped on us so they got CD's by Ray Santisi.

and moved even further back to get Roy Haynes on stage and on the big video screen.
Just a sort of watercolor shorthand, I'll paint into these starts and post'em later.