Jazzman immortalised in painting
Published on: 31-Dec-2007
Legendary jazzman Mick Potts has been immortalised in a painting.Following an appeal for a memorial to the Carlisle musician, Dave Carrick, who moved to France 25 years ago, portrayed him playing a trumpet and holding a cigarette - how he remembered him best.
Mick's daughter, Clare Thomas, unveiled the oil painting at Carlisle's Jazz Club and it could form part of an exhibition of the county's favourite characters at Tullie House in March.
She said that she and her brothers, who were delighted with the portrait, had been "touched" that the members of the club wanted to remember their father.
Mr Carrick, a former stonemason and builder, took three weeks to complete the painting, working only from memory and a photograph.
He had been inspired to start playing jazz after seeing the musician, who died in April 2003, aged 67, play a gig.
The pair became friends and Dave even deputised for Mick when he was too ill to play for his ensemble, the Gateway Band.
After hearing about a plea from the Jazz Club for a tribute, he decided he had to do something.
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