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My pride and joy: the original painting used for the cover of Mingus Ah Um. Directly below it is my first press mono album, also framed. I'll try to post a photograph.

Holy cow! Maybe should not have let the cat out of the bag on that... :ph34r:

I have quite a few framed posters (mostly transit/train related) but also a framed poster of Stuart Davis' Super Table (from right around the time the Terra Art Museum went out of business and they were giving them away for free. *

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I don't have anything that is strictly jazz-related on the walls.

I also have a few original paintings, mostly abstract. I'll try to get some of them posted.

* They were giving away unframed posters for free, just to be clear.

I always like Stuart Davis's work. He's probably a lot better known in the U.S. than over here. There's an exhibition currently at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester of American prints: Hopper to Pollock. A surprising number have jazz themes.

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At work--a Rhino poster for the Central Avenue Sounds box-set, a Miles KIND OF BLUE poster, the Francis Wolff Coltrane poster that came with a Mosaic box or some such a few years back, and Mark Sheldon's "Great Day in Indy" photo.

At home, a WPA-poster calendar and not much else--most of the wall-space is hidden behind book and CD shelving. :crazy:

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I always like Stuart Davis's work. He's probably a lot better known in the U.S. than over here. There's an exhibition currently at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester of American prints: Hopper to Pollock. A surprising number have jazz themes.

That sounds like fun. I managed to get to the Manchester once and saw the Manchester Art Gallery and also the Lowry in Salford that was having a bigger than usual exhibit on Lowry. I think I missed out on the Whitworth. Too bad.

Some of Stuart Davis' works are really quiet jazz-inflected and he is towards the top of my personal favorite list of artists. I actually shelled out for his Catalogue Raisonne (still around on Amazon for slightly less than I paid). Funny story. I was in City Lights Bookstore with a friend and saw one behind the counter. I mentioned it to my friend that I owned a copy, and he asked the clerk if he could take a look. The guy pretty much sneered at us and said he didn't want people pawing through it! Hell, we weren't that scruffy. But yeah, the odds of my friend buying a copy were awfully low.

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Reviving an old thread with a photo of Peter Brotzmann in my listening room. I acquired this photo from Melbourne photographer Tobias Titz, who shot it on large format Polaroid when Peter Brotzmann was visiting Melbourne a few years ago. I had it professionally framed behind anti-reflective glass. I like this photo a lot. It shows the serious person I have seen in concert.

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On 10/13/2009 at 11:44 PM, brownie said:

This Herman Leonard classic!

 

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Me too.  Probably last photo I'll ever buy but I had to have it.  Also Leonard's Dexter and Francis Wolfe Trane.  (2 of them).  One by unknown photographer of Miles and one director Paul Brickman took of Bill Evans.  

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21 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

I've never been on a jazz cruise, but  one of my station's members did, got a number of artists who took part to autograph it, then gave it to me some time before I retired in 2015. The sad thing is that i don't remember the full name of the man who gave it to me.

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Very nice. I think I can decipher Nat Adderley and Dick Hyman.

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https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/anthony-braxton-zim-music-three-day-residency-1/

ANTHONY BRAXTON ZIM MUSIC – THREE DAY RESIDENCY A2 SILKSCREENED POSTER

On occasion of the very special residency by Anthony Braxton we have a screenprinted poster available, designed by Oliver Barrett, printed on thick, quality paper in a limiited edition of 100 numbered copies. 

Dead centre above my living room stereo system.

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55 minutes ago, bresna said:

"You are only allowed to upload 102.4 kb"

I can't post a picture here with that limitation.

I commonly use a site hosting  temporarily & freely pictures such as postimg and retrieve the jpg/png link  just after the upload to copy/paste it here.

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I just bought a framed reproduction of the Prestige cover of Monk & Rollins. A long dream of mine that goes back some years. Thanks to a site that has them: Fine Art of America, of which I learned thanks to a member here. I had seen it previously, but long ago, from Concord. But that isn't available anymore. Now I'll have to decide what to do with it.

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On 10/15/2021 at 2:00 PM, felser said:

John Coltrane - Blue Train | Original Vintage Poster | Chisholm Larsson  Gallery

 

 

 

I've never seen that poster anywhere else but it stayed on my bachelor apartment living room wall thru many moves and many push-pin punctures. Pretty sure I found it in St. Louis, at Vintage Vinyl, very early in my jazz journey.  :tup

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On 14/11/2019 at 4:09 AM, Misterioso said:

Very nice. I think I can decipher Nat Adderley and Dick Hyman.

Here's a record of the occasion: https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/2462/nat-adderley/live-at-the-floating-jazz-festival-1994

Nat Adderley, cornet
Vincent Herring, alto sax
Rob Bargad, piano
Walter Booker, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums

I recognize Flip Phillips' signature on the top left. He was also there the previous year: https://www.discogs.com/release/9520470-Flip-Phillips-At-The-Helm-Live-At-The-1993-Floating-Jazz-Festival

There's also Dick Hyman's.

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