Karen's Music Collection
Music is a huge part of my life.... probably as my dad is a double bass player who passed on his love of jazz to me from when I was young. To celebrate his 80th birthday a few years ago, I used original photos of him from the 60’s and created a collection of Blue Note inspired album covers. It’s all about the bass... and all that jazz... My very first date with my husband involved us listening to my records for hours on end. 5 years later he proposed to me in the famous Ronnie Scotts jazz club. To mark our 20th anniversary in 2019 I created a set of 7” singles with old photos of us. A real soundtrack to our journey so far.... As a child of the 80’s some of my earliest memories was making mix tapes on my cassette player in my bedroom. To mark one of my brother’s 50th birthdays during lockdown, I contacted all his old friends and asked them to send me old photos and to write their personal messages on a cassette case template I provided to make it look like an old skool mix tape. I added old stickers, created labels for side A and side B of the tapes and then displayed them all in an original carousel holder found from Ebay... a classic gem. You just need to pop in your tape, press play, then sit back and enjoy...