The JAzz ALPHABET 2 (The FLipside) - 2025

The Jazz Alphabet Two (The Flip Side) is an all new look at jazz greats, selected jazz instruments, and a few more iconic jazz clubs. Once again, written and illustrated by yours truly, Neil Shapiro. And once again, inspired by the music itself, and the artists who created the music. My goal has always been to take the spirit of improvisation that I hear in jazz, and reflect in my imagery.

Excerpt from the Jazz Alphabet 2 Foreword by Corky Siegel, Internationally known, award-winning musician and composer: My love of music doesn’t end with music, because everything in some way shares the space where music exists — like the poignant riffs and vocabulary of Neil Shapiro’s The Jazz Alphabet. Music heals us from the inside out and the outside in. It uplifts the world. It brings people together because it is universally harmonizing. It is artistically, psychologically, socially, and even politically unifying. Music is kindness in action. And for me, in the case of The Jazz Alphabet, an alphabet has never been so kind.