When we hearken back to the revolutionary 1960s, a decade increasingly "remembered" by people who in fact weren't even alive at the time, the soundtrack that rings in our ears is, of course, rock 'n' roll.
But during the period there was a parallel revolution occurring in jazz, and most fans of Miles Davis would bristle at the suggestion that he was any less iconoclastic than Dylan or the Stones. In fact many people would argue that his experimentation resulted in an evolution of modal jazz that puts him in the pantheon of immortal musicians and composers of the 20th century.
One of those people would be Sakan Kanno. A long-time fan of Davis, Kanno is a 34-year-old jazz bassist living in Koganei, western Tokyo. Kanno is also a painter, who draws inspiration from Davis's music to create what appear at first glance to be somewhat restrained versions of Jackson Pollock's splatter canvases. Abstract paintings that are nicely atmospheric, perhaps, but not a lot more.