Jackson Pollock Painter
Jackson Pollock Web Feature An examination of the paintings and the process Jackson Pollock on the Internet Links to Pollock and related sites Pollock, Jackson Profile of Pollock and his place in art history, with some paintings shown Mumbo Jumbo and Mud Pies Detailed and illustrated career profile	Born: 28 January 1912 Birthplace: Cody, Wyoming Death: 11 August 1956 (Car accident) Best Known As: The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses
"For three months he was a dishwasher for $9 a week in a second-rate Harlem restaurant. Sometimes he didn't even have a horn to play on. "I was always on a panic," is one of his best-known quotes. He slept in garages, became completely run down. "Worst of all was that nobody understood my music." Parker tells: "I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time at the time, and I kept thinking there's bound it be something else. I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. Well, that night I was working over 'Cherokee', and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive." ...Tony Scott relates: "And Bird came in one night and sat in with Don Byas. He blew 'Cherokee' and everybody just flipped... When Bird and Diz [Dizzy Gillespie] hit The Street regularly a couple of years later, everybody was astounded and nobody could get near their way of playing music."
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