The Global Jazz Art Collection

The Global Jazz Art Collection is an Art Project in process by contemporary artist Henk Mommaas. Every six months new works are added to the collection and presented on the internet. As a subject and metaphor he has chosen composers and musicians whom are pillars in the Jazz History. He started with the area of Charlie Parker.

This collection will be of a monumental stature in which Mommaas uses energy, tension, form and color to portray the history of Jazz. He has chosen those musicians and composers whom were essential for the sound and style of their time. For Mommaas Jazz is above all a world language and lifestyle. The energy and vital richness that Jazz represents is the driving force that brought Mommaas to give form to this festival of color.

In every painting he portrays the personal soundcolor of the specific Jazz artist. In this Mega project he will visualize the biggest All-Star Big Band on canvas in the world representing an energetic urge for life, vital beauty, freedom and space for personal improvisation and cooperation.

Technical information: each painting is 180 x 120cm and executed in oil on canvas.

The paintings are not for sale. They are available for museum exhibitions by arrangement (apply by e-mail with no obligation).

The paintings are of: Charlie Parker - John Coltrane - Miles Davis - Bill Evans - Dexter Gorden - Duke Ellington - Charles Mingus - Eric Dolphy - Coleman Hawkins - Thelonious Monk - Sonny Rollins - Wayne Shorter - Ornette Coleman - Elvin Jones - Chet Baker - Cecil Taylor - Michael Brecker - Joe Lovano - Herbie Hancock - David Liebman - Chick Corea - Jack DeJohnette - Keith Jarret - Lee Konitz - Dave Holland - Mal Waldron - Steve Lacey - Bud Powell - Wynton Marsalis - Branford Marsalis - Cannonball Adderley - Joe Henderson - Stan Getz - Art Blakey - Pat Metheny - Wes Montgomery - Ben Webster - Paul Motion - Gerry Mulligan - Bob Brookmeyer - Lester Young - Marc Mommaas.