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Is his surname Italian? Badagnani (talk) 08:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Golia as painter

He describes his many nights at Slug's Saloon (NYC) where he would draw, mostly drawing the musicians; in a comment on Ethan Iverson's Substack. He writes: "most other places were not as tolerate <sic> to have a young white kid take up a table or two with art supplies, inks and papers."

Musicians would come to the table to talk and look at the drawings, many drawings I gave to the musicians. We's have discussions on the similarity of visual art and the sonic arts. When I started to play, driven by that late Coltrane sound on soprano, I had the background of what it meant to go inside and outside and what the history of the music was and what I needed to know. I learned music at Slugg's first hand from the musicians that played there, every nite was a lesson.. And the "Song of Singing"? That is my uncredited painting, taken from a sketch I did at the Vanguard, of that Trio's first gig.

A Web search will bring up references to Golia as a painter prior to his turn to music. Including this earlier vocation would enrich the article.

Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 17:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Iverson himself comments on Golia's painting work, explaining Golia's cover art for The Song of Singing and adding, "Golia also did (credited) art for Joe Henderson’s Black is the Color and Dave Holland/Barre Phillips Music from Two Basses."

Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 15:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still researching this. Discogs shows "Illustration – Vincent Golia*" for Black is the Color.

Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 05:29, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]