"THE BIG UNEASY" is a MUSICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, CULTURAL, and PICTORIAL Novella written, edited, designed, photographed and painted by  VERNELL GARRETT. As the third and final installment of a trilogy of Coffee table Books, it is an artistic documentation of human struggle, defeat and conquests.

As MILES DAVIS once said, "Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around." From its inception, jazz has been the documentation of our struggles, defeats and conquests as a country. It speaks across epochs and is an important legacy of some of our grandest achievements. As a barometer and thermometer for our well being, jazz is a vehicle through which mentality and spirituality can be developed.  Through the music of their minds, jazz musicians made the ultimate statements of humanity, evidenced by the ease with which it traverses cultures, countries and continents. It has a lexicon and psychology all its own. As the third and final installment of a trilogy of Coffee table Books, "THE BIG UNEASY" is a MUSICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, CULTURAL, and PICTORIAL Novella written, edited, designed, photographed and painted by  VERNELL GARRETT. Over it's 138 pages, "THE BIG UNEASY" illustrates the human victory, sub-human scandal and the depth of esoteric mystery that forms or deforms the human ambition for a “more perfect union" through painting, philosophy and story-telling.

He was born in Chicago and raised in a neighborhood where the wrong word to the wrong person might cost your life. It was a district deemed the most dangerous place in the nation, and those who resided there were given only a two percent chance of emerging from it. Reared in a single parent household with eight other siblings (each uniquely and artistically talented) he survived through unassailable familial love and an inherited fanciful escapism. His mother didn’t discourage his abilities as idealistic oddities but fostered them with an encouragement that he could be anything he willed to be. By expressing from an ever evolving essence, he hopes to produce a career of work that informs and invigorates while it progressively challenges limitations. His work and life are dedicated to the education, proliferation, and dispensation of creations that serve as an antidote to the reductive default of status quo ideologies.