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"Rememberance";
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nUjo9DVqI
This unusual collaboration is made possible by the internet. Colin Upton is a award winning cartoonist who has been self-publishing small photocopied mini-comics mostly about his everyday life in Vancouver on Canada's Pacific Coast for over 25 years. In far off England composer Jon Lee discovered Colin's mini-comics online and was inspired to create a series of jazz music soundtracks for some of the mini-comics. While Colin supplies a reading over the internet the rest is put together by John with some help from his more tech savvy friends. The first video of a planned series, "Remembrance"; (based on "Self-Indulgent Comics #33";) has been released. Work proceeds on further videos and there are plans to create a live performance bringing all the participants together, if funding can be raised. This is a unique combination of two of the youngest of art forms that emerged the America's in the 20th century, jazz and comics.
John Lee is a multi-instrumentalist, a composer and teacher who lives on the edge of an industrialized are of England called The Black Country. As a boy he was a naturally gifted musician, training classically on Piano Clarinet and Saxophone and a participant in award winning youth orchestras. He soon found that his abilities were best suited for musical forms like Jazz and World Music. After some forays into the world of popular music as a teenager, John now concentrates on projects that he believes are artistically valid with a particular interest in projects that involve multiple art forms. He composes music from Big Band swing to African folk music. He has specialized in world music forms studying Flamenco in Spain, Gypsy Jazz in France and Irish folk with the Irish community of the Midlands to name but a few. As a self taught Guitarist, Bassist and drummer his first batch of students are looking forward to their first year studying Jazz at conservatoire. He plays with various Jazz ensembles, Big Bands, World music groups and writes for them all. John uses the internet to connect with the artistic community. He is a Jazz musician, Teacher and devotee of The Arts marooned in an area almost totally devoid of Arts and strives to establish himself by producing work which is artistically significant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nUjo9DVqI
This unusual collaboration is made possible by the internet. Colin Upton is a award winning cartoonist who has been self-publishing small photocopied mini-comics mostly about his everyday life in Vancouver on Canada's Pacific Coast for over 25 years. In far off England composer Jon Lee discovered Colin's mini-comics online and was inspired to create a series of jazz music soundtracks for some of the mini-comics. While Colin supplies a reading over the internet the rest is put together by John with some help from his more tech savvy friends. The first video of a planned series, "Remembrance"; (based on "Self-Indulgent Comics #33";) has been released. Work proceeds on further videos and there are plans to create a live performance bringing all the participants together, if funding can be raised. This is a unique combination of two of the youngest of art forms that emerged the America's in the 20th century, jazz and comics.
John Lee is a multi-instrumentalist, a composer and teacher who lives on the edge of an industrialized are of England called The Black Country. As a boy he was a naturally gifted musician, training classically on Piano Clarinet and Saxophone and a participant in award winning youth orchestras. He soon found that his abilities were best suited for musical forms like Jazz and World Music. After some forays into the world of popular music as a teenager, John now concentrates on projects that he believes are artistically valid with a particular interest in projects that involve multiple art forms. He composes music from Big Band swing to African folk music. He has specialized in world music forms studying Flamenco in Spain, Gypsy Jazz in France and Irish folk with the Irish community of the Midlands to name but a few. As a self taught Guitarist, Bassist and drummer his first batch of students are looking forward to their first year studying Jazz at conservatoire. He plays with various Jazz ensembles, Big Bands, World music groups and writes for them all. John uses the internet to connect with the artistic community. He is a Jazz musician, Teacher and devotee of The Arts marooned in an area almost totally devoid of Arts and strives to establish himself by producing work which is artistically significant.
Submitted on December 3, 2012 in By David.
