Throughout this series of Dixieland Jazz Musicians Giuntini exaggerates the player’s hands as a way of reiterating their manual prowess and their expressions to convey emotion.

Giuntini’s The Original Florence Dixielanders portrays another clarinetist this time off to the left side, feet together in profile, wearing a turquoise striped suit on a black background under-painted in red. The elements are balanced via a drawing of a drum announcing the band’s eponymous title with gold dots in the middle used to counterbalance the compositional design. Straining at his playing the clarinetist’s eyebrows arch and a tuft of his yellow hair flies to the left while his head moves. His hands are also exaggeratedly large and juxtaposed against the dark background in their light skin-tone. Giuntini has created these series of jazz musicians on a 4’4”x4’4” format canvases that relay the vitality and ardor of Dixieland. And, just as New Orleans has shown us its endurance by staging recent jazzfests after the catastrophe, Giuntini displays his lasting dedication to great painting and jazz.