April 28, 2006
JAZZ: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme at Trinity Church 4/27/2006
......Jack and I arrived early and I followed him down to the very front pew
well before the musicians came in. When we arrived I began my watercolor
'look' by using the music stands I could see just beyond the pink granite
entry post to the chancel. Alto player, Bill Thompson, entered and stood left
of my music stands and well off my watercolor card. Then everybody came
and moved their music stands around (so much for my compositional ideas).
Bill Pierce is on tenor, and over his left shoulder you can see Cecil McBee and
his bass scroll, then Leonard Brown on sax with John Lockwood seen through
Leonard Brown's left shoulder. Bill Lowe appears by virtue of his tuba's bell
and many positions of his bass trombone slide while Lawrence McClellan on
trombone with glasses reaches for a low note behind the pink granite post.
The others, Sa David, percussionist, was only able to be seen when he threw
his head back, raised his left elbow and lifted his right hand high up and over
the communion rail . Though we were only a few feet from the front line of
players I never saw pianist, George W. Russell, Jr.or Terry Lynne Carrington on
drums. Here are the musicians I noted in watercolor during the performance.
......Leonard Brown playing tenor and later soloing on soprano sax,
Cecil McBee's fingers stroke his upright bass and Billy Pierce solos on tenor.
Bill Thompson on alto and Sa Davis over the communion rail
Back in the studio, Coltrane's music still in mind, I watercolored into another start
on one of my TJ Lyons cards. This is still early in development but I had wanted
to get something from the night on this blog for folks just behind us in the pews.
They said they had enjoyed watching me watercoloring during the performance.
Cecil McBee and John Lockwood, bowing, improvised a great duet on Coltrane's
A Love Supreme melodic motif. I wanted to frame them with Trinity's deep green and
gold leaf wall under a deep red stripe of railing running up from behind Lockwood's
bass scroll and off the card above Cecil's. There more left to do in all the watercolors.
This is a Word page explaining the concert's 
evening of watercoloring. From a list of players I was able to see and sketch to
later at home and studio where I painted into the bass duet and fixed my first 'look'.