Music Lives 365: September 2 Horace Silver & Ralph Fasanella

Leon Thomas cover of a Horace Silver classic

To the best of my knowledge, Eric Jackson, the dean of Boston Jazz radio has graced the beginning of his program since the early 80’s with this spacious Horace Silver composition.

 

9.2.18 Ralph Fasanella

I may paint flat, but I don’t think flat.
— R.F.

New York City, 1957 seen in the entirety of Ralph Fasanella’s vision. The painting was stolen, but this archival image remains.

Drawings made while riding the subway.

Painting made of his gas station in the Bronx

“The Atom Bomb” by R.F.

I didn’t make my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s house
— Fasanella
 

9.2.46 Billy Preston