Coolest Jazz Animation Smigly the Sax Man

The award for the Coolest Jazz Animation is Allen Mezquida's Smigly the Sax Man Mr Mezquida was a jazz alto saxophonist in the New York area for much of the 1980s and 1990s He recorded one album as leader A Good Thing which was released by Koch in 1996 His quartet for the album was Bill Mays or Brad Mehldau on piano bassist Sean Smith and drummer Leon Parker In the late 1990s Mezquida decided to try something else he later commented that I was feeling underappreciated a lot of self-pity and I was more frustrated with jazz's tiny place in the current cultural landscape than with my jazz career He then drew cartoons and took up digital animation After moving to Los Angeles he got work for major film studios He later described this as executing the ideas of morons that I didn't respect and started a YouTube channel for his animated creation Smigly a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fchannel 2FUCtCQbTgynA0Hn-OFvB01cfQ a

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