Free Notes

Whilst listening to jazz I have often wondered how one might draw this type of music, if indeed such a question even really makes any sense. I have seen many pictures showing musicians playing their instruments, sometimes with musical notes floating through the air. Sometimes instead these musical pictures are just of typical jazz instruments, or maybe a musical score, or of a device that can reproduce music such as a gramophone.

To me one of the strengths of good jazz music is that the notes in a way are set free. I tried to find an original way of showing this, but in the end I have fallen back on showing musical notes making some kind of “jail break” through the broken bars of the the musical stave they are written on. This picture is the result, which doesn’t really answer the question of how one might draw “jazz”, but does I hope convey some impression of the notes breaking free …