"The Greatest of Jazz" Playing Cards for Jazz Lovers

[EKE BBB]

Click on each of the 54 jazz musicians to see the drawings

EDIT to add the link to the English version of the website

Edited November 23, 2006 by EKE BBB

[Chas]

I have my doubts that jazz lovers will be interested in these playing cards .

With the admiration and reverence jazz lovers have for these artists , it is unlikely these caricatures will appeal to them , for they are not loving caricatures .

What's more , depictions of black people have to be informed by some sensitivity to historical portrayals of black people . Would not jazz lovers be particularly sensitive to the history of blackface , minstrelsy , golliwoggs etc. ?

Given these considerations how appealing are these :

Are these the images we want to associate with these two artists ? :

[B. Clugston]

A further issue is they are not very good. Chick Corea looks like Mick Jagger. Any guesses as to who is holding Ornette's alto?

[Chas]

A further issue is they are not very good. Chick Corea looks like Mick Jagger. Any guesses as to who is holding Ornette's alto?

Even if one doesn't share my objections , I think we can all agree that Ornette Coleman , John Coltrane , Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins are unrecognizable as such .

[Jazzmoose]

And no one's even brought up the 4 of hearts yet...