Prophet’s Mood

RICHARD SLATER “PROPHET” JENNINGS – Full-blown post-humous exhibition of paintings by artist and jazz scenester Richard “Prophet” Jennings, currently in New York, is long-awaited. One of the nicest things about running Flophouse Magazine is collecting cherised memories. Certainly one of my fondest experiences was making an overview of the life and career of painter, journalist and jazz buff Richard “Prophet” Jennings in cooperation with his daughter Dominique, nicknamed “Pistol” by her dad. Read the article here: http://flophousemagazine.com/2016/04/21/pistol-speaks/ The adventurous life and career of Richard Slater Jennings (1922-2005) reads like a cross between a chapter of a Jack Kerouac book and a scene from John Cassavettes’s Shadows. Jennings was a dancer, journalist, hustler and painter, a key underground figure in black cultural life in the 1940s-00’s, friend of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley and other assorted legends,…