Basie Jam #1 - 2000-2023 The colonial times in Africa

The colonial times in Africa the French built schools for themselves from our labour and land while we have nothing at home

we sometimes make future regrets

There are always people

pastel and oil stick on paper

Basie Jam #1 - 2000-2023 The colonial times in Africamixed media: found object, acrylic, photography, on old door 70 X 30 in. 2023 "I started this piece twenty years ago and just revisited it in 2023. It features a record which was one of my first introductions to jazz, the vinyl record called Basie Jam. This record was one of several that Count Basie recorded in his home with some of the greatest players of the jazz world in NYC at that time, all his friends. The sessions are known as some of the best