Jazz Drawings
Since the first
Capital City Jazz Festival in 1985, Frank has
put on more than a dozen solo exhibitions of Jazz
Drawings, most recently at the Weinberg Center
for the Arts in 2003. These drawings are based
on Frank’s first-hand observation of musicians
in jazz clubs and at festivals.
“In 1983 I discovered
a little jazz club in Cincinnati, the Blue Wisp.
Periodically, I’d slip in with a sketchbook
and a coffee can full of felt-tip markers, sit
down, and draw like a demon until closing time.
Through the eighties I sketched the jazz up and
down the east coast, particularly in New York,
where you could hear the guys play till just about
sunrise if you knew where to go.
“Ever since then I have
focused my drawing on folks who are doing what
they love to do and who are very good at it.”
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Dewey Redman,
with Charlie Hayden, at Sweet Basil, September
1986
Ink and collage, 25” x 15”
© Frank DuVal 1995 SOLD |
Ron Carter at
Sweet Basil, August 3, 1985
Pencil, ink and colored inks, 24” x 18”
© Frank DuVal 2003 SOLD |
Lionel Hampton
at Saratoga Springs, Newport Jazz Festival, June
1986
Colored inks on rice paper, 40” x 24”
© Frank DuVal 1991 SOLD |
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With Living Daylights,
at the Freihofer Jazz Festival; Saratoga Springs,
New York; June 30, 2002
Ink on rice paper, 27” x 15"
© Frank DuVal 2005 |
Duffy at Stars
Café, summer 1989
Ink on paper, 20” x 17”
© Frank DuVal 2004 |
Paul Wilson at
Brewer’s Alley,
July 29, 2003
Ink on paper, 20” x 17”
© Frank DuVal 2004 |
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Curtis Fuller at the Village
Vanguard, August 1985
Ink, wash and collage, 15”
x 25”,
© Frank DuVal 1995 |
Hank Jones at University of
Maryland Baltimore Campus, sponsored by the Jazz
Heritage Foundation, October 1, 1988
Ink, wash and collage, 15”
x 25”
© Frank DuVal 1995 SOLD |
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Jimmy Heath at
University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, sponsored
by the Jazz Heritage Foundation,
October 1, 1988
Colored inks on rice paper, 22” x 17”
© Frank DuVal 2002 |
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