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Dave Chisholm

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http://www.davechisholmmusic.com/

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Music, Art, Comics

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Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, NY where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium has resulted in a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels including Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound (2023, Z2 Comics), Enter the Blue (2022, Z2 Comics), and Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California (2020, Z2 Comics). His most recent releases SPECTRUM (Mad Cave Studios)--a trippy exploration of a funhouse-mirror version of 20th-century music history framed by an eternal battle in the realm of music and sound made in collaboration with writer Rick Quinn--and ...more

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	Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California 4.45 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enter the Blue by Dave Chisholm (Goodreads Author), Z2 Comics 4.31 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound 4.50 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instrumental 4.01 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canopus 3.68 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canopus #1 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let's Go to Utah by Dave Chisholm (Goodreads Author) (Author, Illustrator), Dave McCaig (Cover Colorist) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canopus #2 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canopus #4 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canopus #3 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dave Chisholm liked Dan's review of Spectrum: "My thanks to NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios for an advance copy of this graphic novel made up of sense and color, that tells a story that crossing time, space, musical catalogs, people who might have been, and events that never were. Over the years I" Read more of this review »
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Dave Chisholm liked Matt Graupman's review of Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound: "Like Miles Davis' relentless pursuit of The Sound, Dave Chisholm is an artist constantly searching for The Look, which makes him the perfect biographer for the larger-than-life jazz legend. Never one to rest on his considerable laurels (see: "Instrum" Read more of this review »
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Dave Chisholm and 1 other person liked Colin Post's review of Spectrum #1: "This is a mesmerizing first issue, exploring the idea of some unified theory of the universe hidden in pop music. The art is gorgeous and the writing is poetic."
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