Jazz Articles about Thomas Maintz

Thomas Maintz: This is the Color...

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 9, 2010

There's an idiomatic expression in English called “thinking outside the box," which means that trying to think creatively, unimpeded by conventional restraints. In the case of Danish guitarist Thomas Maintz, the expression is taken quite literally. Using a box with postcards of famous paintings, Maintz randomly picked a card and improvised over it, and the result is three lyrical pieces inspired by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Edward Hopper. Miro's painting, “This is the Color of my ...