Articles by Alastair Graham

Impressions: The Story of a Collection by Alastair Graham

by Alastair Graham
June 16, 2008

The folio of 71 black and white drawings of jazz musicians that make up the Impressions collection has taken over 12 years to assemble. The reasons are many, the difficulty in finding a decent and expressive likeness being not the least of them. The main element I found I had to incorporate--and one that sometimes took several weeks to uncover and put down on paper--was the graphic metaphor that best reflected the personality, indeed sometimes the very sound, of the ...