"Hot can be cool, and cool can be hot, and each can be both.
But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz."
~ Louis Armstrong
~ 1901-1971
Silhouetted hands bring a hot jazz number
to a crescendo in the key of cool in this image,
a portion of a jazzy mural in Easton, Pennsylvania
that I shot on a chilly November day. This is my
artistic interpretation of the mural image.
I captured
this cool mural of jazz silhouettes of musicians on the façade of the Hotel
Lafayette as they literally paint the town. The mural features the shadows of musicians on keyboard,
saxophone, trumpet and other jazz instruments against bright colors.
The mural is
an Easton Main Street Initiative public art project created in 2012. It is a
gift of the Easton Rotary Service Foundation in memory of Ted Pierce, who was
the station manager of WEST radio, an outstanding and devoted citizen. He was a
generous benefactor of the Easton community and Easton Rotary Service
Foundation, as well as an exemplary journalist and key reporter on the
Nuremburg War Crimes Trial for the Armed Forces Network. Pierce left a large
amount of money for the Rotary Club to use on Easton-based projects.
The mural
was designed and painted on the Fourth Street side of the building by the
Freehand Mural Group of Easton.
