Ornette

Ornette and his band coming off stage at Hollywood Bowl Playboy Jazz Festival ---- June 19, 1982 ---- photo by Mark Weber ---- two drummers two electric bass two guitarists and Ornette out front playing the blues ----- He really made me a believer that day, with his electric thing

Ornette and his band coming off stage at Hollywood Bowl Playboy Jazz Festival —- June 19, 1982 —- photo by Mark Weber —- two drummers two electric bass two guitarists and Ornette out front playing the blues —– He really made me a believer that day, with his electric thing

July 18, 2o19 Jazz @ Noon every Thursday (starts at 12:07 after the satellite news) Host MARK WEBER KUNM Albuquerque, USA 89.9 FM (Mountain Standard Time) also streaming on the web KUNM.org Current time zone offset: UTC*/GMT -6 hours (*Coordinated Universal Time)/Greenwich Mean Time)

ORNETTE

From my way of thinking,
A true artist never endeavors to
Be “original” or go out of their way to be different

Expression comes from natural sources,
Yes, of course, one is acculturated within one’s world
And that is part of who you are, definitely
And organically, no escaping that

Anything else would be
Bending toward marketing strategies
And sales, and embracing novelty just to be
Different —— Being yourself is the trick,
It comes easy for some and for others
It involves peeling back
The layers of the onion

We’ll be visiting with trumpeter/cornetist, improvisor, composer,
Scholar and jazz thinker Bobby Bradford today to talk about
Originality and Ornette’s vision

NY saxophonist Tim Berne visiting L.A. – October 21, 1979 – photo & line drawing by Mark Weber

NY saxophonist Tim Berne visiting L.A. – October 21, 1979 – photo & line drawing by Mark Weber

Legendary Los Angeles poet & jazz nut Michael C Ford visiting us in Salt Lake City, Utah ---- photo by Mark Weber – May 24, 1990 (we lived in Salt Lake two years while Janet did a residency at the V.A. Hospital, before we moved down here to Burque summer of 1991) ---- Michael insists that valve actually changes the sound on this plumbing trumpet ---- His telephone back then said: “Okay, I know, I know,” sounding like he just woke up, “It’s an answering device okay? After the beep, leave me a message, you know the routine, you drop it, and I’ll pick it up, okay, bye” ---------- Another time, I was walking along with Michael C Ford, with Joan & Fred, and I think Marilyn, we were on the palisades of Long Beach near the pier and the fishermen had their day’s catch out on tables for sale, and one table had seven little fish all lined up in a row, and I said, Hey, look! And Michael not missing a beat said, “Yeh, the Lighthouse All-Stars”

Legendary Los Angeles poet & jazz nut Michael C Ford visiting us in Salt Lake City, Utah —- photo by Mark Weber – May 24, 1990 (we lived in Salt Lake two years while Janet did a residency at the V.A. Hospital, before we moved down here to Burque summer of 1991) —- Michael insists that valve actually changes the sound on this plumbing trumpet —- His telephone back then said: “Okay, I know, I know,” sounding like he just woke up, “It’s an answering device okay? After the beep, leave me a message, you know the routine, you drop it, and I’ll pick it up, okay, bye” ———- Another time, I was walking along with Michael C Ford, with Joan & Fred, and I think Marilyn, we were on the palisades of Long Beach near the pier and the fishermen had their day’s catch out on tables for sale, and one table had seven little fish all lined up in a row, and I said, Hey, look! And Michael not missing a beat said, “Yeh, the Lighthouse All-Stars”

Bobby Bradford in trio with Bert Karl(drums) & Noah Young(bass) @ Century City Playhouse – October 21, 1979 – photo by Mark Weber – We will be talking with the maestro via telephone on this radio show this day from his home in Altadena, California ------ I plan to ask him about Ornette in the 50s and Ornette’s impulses to create the music that he did, it’s going to be fulsome

Bobby Bradford in trio with Bert Karl(drums) & Noah Young(bass) @ Century City Playhouse – October 21, 1979 – photo by Mark Weber – We will be talking with the maestro via telephone on this radio show this day from his home in Altadena, California —— I plan to ask him about Ornette in the 50s and Ornette’s impulses to create the music that he did, it’s going to be fulsome.

John Lewis ---- Hollywood Bowl ---- June 18, 1983 ---- photo by Mark Weber

John Lewis —- Hollywood Bowl —- June 18, 1983 —- photo by Mark Weber

Drummer & jazz scholar George Schuller in town with the Lee Konitz Quartet ---- March 12, 2o15 Outpost Performance Space – photo by Mark Weber ---- (George is talking with James Newton in this shot, about their mutual admiration for Eric Dolphy)

Drummer & jazz scholar George Schuller in town with the Lee Konitz Quartet —- March 12, 2o15 Outpost Performance Space – photo by Mark Weber —- (George is talking with James Newton in this shot, about their mutual admiration for Eric Dolphy)

Violinist Rebecca Lynn visiting us from L.A. – she’s the daughter of poet, the late Cathy Lynn of Long Beach, of whom we shared a book publishing together (her side was THE OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE GUILT-RIDDEN TERMINAL MOTHER, mine was my usual stuff (Zerx chap #26, 1992) ------ photo by Mark Weber on the West Mesa, Albuquerque December 26, 1992

Violinist Rebecca Lynn visiting us from L.A. – she’s the daughter of poet, the late Cathy Lynn of Long Beach, of whom we shared a book publishing together (her side was THE OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE GUILT-RIDDEN TERMINAL MOTHER, mine was my usual stuff (Zerx chap #26, 1992) —— photo by Mark Weber on the West Mesa, Albuquerque December 26, 1992

Janet Feder in Denver ---- photo by Mark Weber – October 29, 2o16 ---- A supremely talented and gifted and transcendent guitarist (see her website) --- She will be performing in Corrales (an outlier village of Albuquerque) Sunday August 4 @ 7pm at Live At Thrive, 4685 Corrales Road ---- She plays all kinds of guitars, one of the ones that has always fascinated me is when she “prepares” the guitar which is hard to describe, you’d best see to see ------- Here’s a story: (this is genius) Janet is trained as a classical guitarist although she struck out in other directions, but I was curious how she would play Bach and after quite some nudging on my part she relented, but not quite! She took the strings off her guitar and put them back in random order and tuned them to their conventional tonality, so, the guitar was no long EADGBE, I don’t know WHAT it was, THEN she put the Bach sheet music in front of her and played it by sight as if the strings were in the right order (I wonder if she put on ear mufflers, so as not to be confused?) and you can hear this on the compilation ALBUZERXQUE Vol. 13 as “Wrong Strung Prelude”

Janet Feder in Denver —- photo by Mark Weber – October 29, 2o16 —- A supremely talented and gifted and transcendent guitarist (see her website) — She will be performing in Corrales (an outlier village of Albuquerque) Sunday August 4 @ 7pm at Live At Thrive, 4685 Corrales Road —- She plays all kinds of guitars, one of the ones that has always fascinated me is when she “prepares” the guitar which is hard to describe, you’d best see to see ——- Here’s a story: (this is genius) Janet is trained as a classical guitarist although she struck out in other directions, but I was curious how she would play Bach and after quite some nudging on my part she relented, but not quite! She took the strings off her guitar and put them back in random order and tuned them to their conventional tonality, so, the guitar was no long EADGBE, I don’t know WHAT it was, THEN she put the Bach sheet music in front of her and played it by sight as if the strings were in the right order (I wonder if she put on ear mufflers, so as not to be confused?) and you can hear this on the compilation ALBUZERXQUE Vol. 13 as “Wrong Strung Prelude”

Bobby Bradford ---- May 16, 2008 ---- photo by Mark Weber

Bobby Bradford —- May 16, 2008 —- photo by Mark Weber

Bobby Shew playing Richie Kamuca’s tenor! It’s a 1940s Conn 10M that Bobby got from Bud Shank who got it from Kamuca’s estate after Richie passed (1930-1977) and it was Bud who had it reconditioned and re-plated, I asked if it was the very saxophone Richie played back in the 50s? “He was playing it in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and from what I think Bud Shank told me, Richie switched to a Selmer in the late 70’s” ---- photo by Mark Weber – July 12, 2019 Corrales, New Mexico

Bobby Shew playing Richie Kamuca’s tenor! It’s a 1940s Conn 10M that Bobby got from Bud Shank who got it from Kamuca’s estate after Richie passed (1930-1977) and it was Bud who had it reconditioned and re-plated, I asked if it was the very saxophone Richie played back in the 50s? “He was playing it in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and from what I think Bud Shank told me, Richie switched to a Selmer in the late 70’s” —- photo by Mark Weber – July 12, 2019 Corrales, New Mexico

The group known as Orange Then Blue – Knitting Factory NYC June 29, 1997 – You can barely see drummer George Schuller in this shot – Ensemble included: Jamie Saft(piano), Rufus Cappadocia(cello), Tom Varner(Fr-horn), Christoph Schweizer(trombone), Dave Ballou & Herb Robertson & Cuong Vu(trumpets), Andy Laster & Andrew D’Angelo & Tony Malaby(reeds), Reid Anderson(bass), who is on tuba? And who is on accordion? ---- photo by Mark Weber

The group known as Orange Then Blue – Knitting Factory NYC June 29, 1997 – You can barely see drummer George Schuller in this shot – Ensemble included: Jamie Saft(piano), Rufus Cappadocia (cello), Tom Varner (Fr-horn), Christoph Schweizer (trombone), Dave Ballou & Herb Robertson & Cuong Vu (trumpets), Andy Laster & Andrew D’Angelo & Tony Malaby (reeds), Reid Anderson (bass), who is on tuba? And who is on accordion? —- photo by Mark Weber

The Schulldogs at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque ---- November 13, 2000 --- George Schuller(drums), Ed Schuller(bass), Tim Berne(alto), Tony Malaby(tenor) ---- photo by Mark Weber ------ George Schuller is bringing his group Circle Wide Quintet to Albuquerque next week playing the Route 66 Summerfest street party on July 20th AND on the 21st at the Outpost screening his documentary film The Modern Jazz Quartet: From Residency to Legacy(2o18)

The Schulldogs at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque —- November 13, 2000 — George Schuller(drums), Ed Schuller(bass), Tim Berne(alto), Tony Malaby(tenor) —- photo by Mark Weber —— George Schuller is bringing his group Circle Wide Quintet to Albuquerque next week playing the Route 66 Summerfest street party on July 20th AND on the 21st at the Outpost screening his documentary film The Modern Jazz Quartet: From Residency to Legacy(2o18)

David Murray & Kahil El’Zabar hold forth at Bird & Beckett Bookstore in San Francisco (653 Chenery Street) a regular stop for them from what I understand ---- they also played in Los Angeles on this swing ---- Cell phone photo by my long-time friend George Brooks ------ Monday July 1, 2o19

David Murray & Kahil El’Zabar hold forth at Bird & Beckett Bookstore in San Francisco (653 Chenery Street) a regular stop for them from what I understand —- they also played in Los Angeles on this swing —- Cell phone photo by my long-time friend George Brooks —— Monday July 1, 2o19

David Murray & Kahil El’Zabar – June 29, 2o19 in Oakland performing for East Side Arts Alliance & Cultural Center block party on 23rd Avenue (@ E. 12th Street) ---- photo by George Brooks who says “Murray seems really fond of this organization, apparently grew up nearby, half the sparse audience seemed to be friends and family”

David Murray & Kahil El’Zabar – June 29, 2o19 in Oakland performing for East Side Arts Alliance & Cultural Center block party on 23rd Avenue (@ E. 12th Street) —- photo by George Brooks who says “Murray seems really fond of this organization, apparently grew up nearby, half the sparse audience seemed to be friends and family”

Connie mailed this postcard to me here in Albuquerque on March 11, 2002

Connie mailed this postcard to me here in Albuquerque on March 11, 2002

Muhammad Ali: Line drawing by MW October 1978 w/ my old piano and Picasso (by Irving Penn)

Muhammad Ali: Line drawing by MW October 1978 w/ my old piano and Picasso (by Irving Penn)

November 14, 1994 Cleveland, Ohio ---- FREE stamp by Claes Oldenburg/Choosje Van Bruggen (1991) painted steel & aluminum – Willard Park, next to City Hall – photo by Mark Weber

November 14, 1994 Cleveland, Ohio —- FREE stamp by Claes Oldenburg/Choosje Van Bruggen (1991) painted steel & aluminum – Willard Park, next to City Hall – photo by Mark Weber

16 Comments

  1. Mark Weber

    I would have loved to hear Murray out-blow that BART train passing behind him!

  2. Leslie A Westbrook

    hi mark – can’t find your email – ill be in ABQ briefly in about 10 days… maybe we can connect

  3. Janet Feder

    Here I am, enjoying as always the travelogues of your photos and descriptions, and so surprised to find that I’ve made your pages. Thank you Mark for the kind words, the funny story, the photo at my sister’s kitchen table that looks like it came at the end of a long day – which I love for the reflection of you in the window! Looking forward to playing and seeing you and Janet again soon in Corrales. love j.

  4. Marty Krystall

    Whenever I see the Hollywood Bowl, I cringe at all of the horrors and humiliations I witnessed there. I could write a book on all of the bullshit musicians suffered there over the decades, and I mean stories I heard from the 1940s, to outrageous crap I witnessed working there. but I’ll let sleeping dogs lie for now.

  5. Marty Krystall

    Seeing the Ornette photo in 1982 reminds me five years later, when our group Thelonious opened for Prime Time in LA at the Palace Theatre. During the soundcheck one of the bass players turned up to 10 and blew his amp. That was the loudest electric weaponized garbage I ever heard. But it wasn’t that much louder than the band sounded live in the hall. After that amp blew, everyone stopped playing. It was like silence after a gunfight. Everyone’s ears were ringing, and then Buell yelled out, at the top of voice to the electric bass player: “You blew it, motherfucker, you blew it!!!!” We were so pissed off at that band that we played our asses off.

  6. Greg Cohen

    Thanks for your ever wonderful posts Mark! Bobby Bradford forever! Polka dots and Ornette beams. Bobby Shew, outstanding in his field…..of tenors!

  7. Mark Bridwell

    Mark _ _ just keep doin’ these things they edify me . Particularly the piece on Richie Kamuca’s tenor sax . The first
    time I went to the Lighthouse , circa 1963, some dude walked in w/ his (s)ax in a gig bag that looked my guitar bag –
    he then sat down right next to me waiting for his cue to come up and blow. And it was Richie himself . Terrific player
    and, sadly, practically forgotten by today’s jazz fans .

  8. Mark Weber

    Greg————Shew has Friday afternoon sessions at his studio and I get to be a fly on the wall as he pulls from his massive collection of band books & arrangements, amazing stuff, and these New Mexico hotshots read that stuff down! (I guess you could call it a read-through)(Alex Murzyn, tenor&flute; Cal Haines, drums; Micky Patten, bass; Jim Ahrend or Pat Rhoads or Bob Lah, piano)—-Shew only pulled out the tenor at my request, he wasn’t playing it with the crew, altho, he says he might someday! (he sticks to his Yamaha trumpets & flugels)————————-Marty K: I didn’t know Hollywood Bowl was such a drag, I’ve always had a good time there——————Mr Bridwell: WHAT a great story! By the time I got hip to Kamuca, having fell in love with his album QUARTET 1976 Lp on a small label JAZZZ, he was gone! Cancer took him very quick according to Shew, so, I don’t think I ever caught him (maybe in a big band once or twice)———–Janet Feder! It’s been just shy of 3 years since we last saw each other, why the long spaces?———————–AND Leslie Westbrook, coincidentally, just the other day I scored a Si Zentner album with your dad playing on it (piano)! And soon as I locate your email connection I’ll write and yes it will be good to see you in New Mexico

  9. Mark Weber

    I remember Ornette’s electric band was a hard sell to a lot of us ———– When the first album of that nature came out in 1976 — DANCING IN YOUR HEAD —- I was over at Freddy Katz’s in Fullerton and I asked him what he thought of the record, and that I was not really getting it, and he said, “Mark, you have to reserve judgement sometimes” — a very wise man, I have never forgot that

  10. Andrea Wolper

    Wow! This is wonderful. Mark, you have all the stories, and they matter. I’m so glad you’re here to tell them.

  11. Bill Payne

    Your knowledge and photographs are beyond belief, you are a much needed writer, photographer and historian. DO NOT STOP!!!! The world needs you…

  12. joan jobe smith and Fred Voss

    oh, wow, a pic of the young dark-haired Michael C, “jazz nut”–
    and the beautiful Rebecca Lynn–didn’t know she was a musician! keep on keepin on, Mark, with
    the jazz bizzazz…
    love to you and Janet… joan jobe smith and Fred Voss

  13. Mark Weber

    ——————–playlist———————————-
    The Ornette Coleman Memorial Jazz Radio Show
    July 18, 2o19 ——-KUNM Albuquerque
    Host MARK WEBER
    1. Ornette “Invisible” –22feb58 LA first track from his first album SOMETHING ELSE!!! (Contemporary)
    w/Don Cherry(pocket trpt), Walter Norris(piano), Don Payne(bass), Billy Higgins(drums), Ornette(plastic alto)
    2. “The Blessing” as previous
    3. Ornette “School Work” SCIENCE FICTION (Col.) w/ Bobby Bradford(trpt), OC(alto), Dewey Redman(tenor), Charlie Haden(bass), Ed Blackwell(drums)—9sept71
    4. Ornette “Lonely Woman” –22may59 LA his 3rd album and first for Atlantic Records THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME
    5. Telephone interview with BOBBY BRADFORD
    6. Excerpt from “El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz” David Murray cd MX (Red Baron) *I isolated Bobby Bradford’s cornet solo, the excerpt fades up within piano solo by John
    Hicks and fades out on tenor solo by Ravi Coltrane —- Fred Hopkins(bass), Victor Lewis(drums) – 25sept1992 NYC
    7. Bobby Bradford & David Murray “Woodshedetude” cd DEATH OF A SIDEMAN (DIW – Japan) Oct.1991 w/ Ed Blackwell(drums), Fred Hopkins(bass)
    8. Ornette “Law Years” SCIENCE FICTION w/ Bradford solo —-9sept71 NYC

  14. Mark Weber

    ——————————–playlist———————————–
    The Neil Armstrong Memorial Jazz Radio Show
    July 25, 2o19 —————-KUNM Albuquerque
    Host MARK WEBER
    1. Nat Adderley Quintet “Yeehaw Junction” 18/19.Sept. 1978 cd A LITTLE NEW YORK MIDTOWN MUSIC (Galaxy) w/ Johnny Griffin (tenor), Victor Feldman (piano),Ron Carter (bass), Nat (cornet), Roy McCurdy (drums)
    2. Chris Connor “Fly Me to the Moon” – April 1955 COMPLETE BETHLEHEM RECORDINGS (Fresh Sound) *the first jazz version of this 1954 song by Bart Howard
    3. Ronny Lang Saxtet “Love Me or Leave Me” –23june55 cd BASIE STREET (Fresh Sound) w/ Ronny Lang, Bob Drashin, Dave Pell, Abe Aaron, Butch Stone (saxophones) w/ Donn Trenner (piano), Buddy Clark (bass), Bill Richmond (drums)
    4. Joyce Collins Trio “The end of a love affair” 1960 w/ Frank Butler (drums), Ray Brown (bass), Joyce (piano)
    5. Ronny Lang All Stars “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” —-1957
    6. Joyce Collins solo “I get along without you very well” solo – 1960
    7. MJQ “Odds Against Tomorrow” – 9oct59 *We heard Aaron Diehl Quartet play this in concert last Friday in Albuquerque
    8. Richie Kamuca & Bill Perkins “I want a little girl” – July 1956 album TENORS HEAD ON (Pacific Jazz) w/ Pete Jolly (piano), Stan Levey (drums), Red Mitchell (bass)
    9. MJQ “Yesterdays” —- April 5, 1957
    10. John Coltrane “The Invisible”(Ornette) w/ Percy Heath (bass), Don Cherry (trpt), Ed Blackwell (drums) cd THE AVANT GARDE (Atlantic)
    11. Supersax “Be-Bop” –1973 their first album SUPERSAX PLAYS BIRD (Capitol)
    12. Frank Sinatra w/Basie 1964 “Fly me to the moon” *there are 549 versions of this song listed at Tom Lord Jazz Discography
    13. Ben Wendel Quintet “July” cd THE SEASONS w/ Matt Brewer (bass), Ben (tenor), Aaron Parks (piano) Eric Harland (drums), Gilad Hekselman (guitar)—March 2o18
    14. Lou Levy Trio “Apartment 17” w/ Max Bennett (bass), Stan Levey (drums), Lou (piano) album A MOST MUSICAL FELLA –15nov56 Los Angeles
    15. Art Pepper – Jack Montrose Quintet “Thyme Time” (based on Love Me or Leave Me) –25aug53 LA w/ Claude Williamson (piano), Monty Budwig (bass), Larry Bunker (drums), Art (alto), Jack (tenor) cd COMPLETE SAVOY SESSIONS
    16. Johnny Pisano & Billy Bean (guitars) “Cirrus”(P.Horn) – 30jan58 w/ Paul Horn (flute), Gene Estes (vibes), Larry Bunker (drums), Hal Gaylor (bass) cd MAKIN’ IT & TAKE YOUR PICK (Fresh Sound)
    17. Lars Gullin w/ strings “I’ve Seen”(LG) –1964 album PORTRAIT OF MY PALS (Capitol) – Lars on baritone saxophone (and Rolf Bilberg on triangle!)

    *Neil Armstrong landed the lunar module Eagle at tranquility base on the moon July 16, 1969 fifty years ago and there’s been documentaries on all week which have revealed that Armstrong was a remarkable dude (1930-2012) — Apollo 11 mission
    **All dates refer to date of recording

  15. Mark Weber

    —————————–playlist ———————————-
    The Shake & Bake Jazz Radio Show
    August 1, 2o19 ——————KUNM Albuquerque
    Host MARK WEBER
    1. Gary Burton Quartet title track from ECM Lp REAL LIFE HITS composed by Carla Bley – Nov. 1984 w/ Makoto Ozone(piano), Steve Swallow(bass), Mike Hyman(drums), Gary(vibes)
    2. Bob Cooper Quintet + 5 “Night Stroll” – August 1957 – the quintet at the time he played nightly at The Lighthouse augmented by Pete & Conte Candoli, Don Fagerquist(trpts), Johnny Halliburton(trombone) and Victor Feldman(vibes) —– the Quintet: Bob(tenor), Frank Rosolino(trombone), Lou Levy(piano), Max Bennett(bass), Mel Lewis(drums) cd COOP! THE MUSIC OF BOB COOPER (Contemporary)
    3. Forrest Westbrook Trio “I’m getting sentimental over you” – 1958 w/ Bill Plummer(bass), Maurice Miller(drums), Forrest(piano) cd THE REMARKABLE FORREST WESTBROOK (Fresh Sound)
    4. Bobcats (local outfit appearing at Outpost this night) “Blue Skies” – 2018 w/ Bob Gusch(clarinet), Dan Dowling(guitar), John Griffin(bass) cd MUSIC FOR THE SOLE
    5. Adolfo Acosta Trio “Estate” w/ Adolfo(flugel), Cal Haines(drums), Colin Deuble(bass) recorded in Studio A at KUNM Monday (July 29) *Adolfo moved to Albuquerque (Corrales) June/July 2o17 to continue studying with Bobby Shew but spends most of the last 19 years on the road with Tower Of Power
    6. Birgitta Flick Quartet “grey” –10may2018 cd COLOR STUDIES w/ Andreas Schmidt(piano), James Banner(bass), Max Andrzejewski(drums), Birgitta(tenor)
    7. Pat Malone Trio w/ Cal Haines(drums), Michael Glynn(bass), Pat(guitar) “I’ll remember April” –16jan2o12 recorded at KUNM
    8. Birgitta Flick “Sarabande”(JSBach) ibid.
    9. Charles Mingus Sestet “Thrice Upon a Theme” – 1954
    10. Michael Perlowin (pedal steel) “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” – 1997 cd FIREBIRD SUITE
    11. Janet Feder “Shouting Valley” –13aug2000 recorded at KUNM
    12. Larry Young 4 “Nica’s Dream”(H. Silver) – 30sept60 w/ Larry(Hammond organ), Thornel Schwartz(guitar), Jimmie Smith(drums), Wendell Marshall(bass)

  16. Mark Weber

    ———————————-playlist———————–
    Jazz all over the map jazz radio show
    August 8, 2o19 — KUNM Albuquerque
    Host MARK WEBER
    1. Northwood Improvisors “Bamboo” –25july2o13 w/ Mike Johnston (bass), Mike Khoury (violin), Mike List (tabla), Mike Gilmore (sheng), Kirk Lucas (guitar) cd INSCRIBE (Entropy)
    2. MWANDISHI Sextet “You’ll know when you get there” – 31dec1970 w/ Billy Hart (drums), Herbie Hancock (Rhodes), Buster Williams (bass) Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), Bennie Maupin (alto flute) – * When this record came out in 1971 it was just what were looking for, those of us of the hippie persuasion who had been turned on by the long jams of the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers —- I heard it on the radio, and had seen it in a headshop in Newport Beach, so after a day of body surfing at 23rd Street, I bought it and hitchhiked home —- my first jazz album, sort of the beginnings of an electric sound that became known as fusion, its predecessor being Miles’ BITCHES BREW and LIVE AT THE FILLMORE
    3. Eddie Henderson Quintet “Sunburst” –12may2o14 cd COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT w/Gary Bartz (alto), EH (tprt), Carl Allen (drums) Doug Weiss (bass), George Cables (piano)
    4. Jon Gagan ELECTRIC sextet “Bygone” w/ Pat Malone (guitar), JG (bass), Kanoa Kaluhiwa (tenor), Bert Dalton(Rhodes), Eddie Garcia (drums), Mark Clark (congas) –c.2o19
    5. Ed Blackwell drum solo excerpted from “Law Years” Ornette’s album SCIENCE FICTION –9sept71
    6. Gene Cipriano Quartet “Sunday” – 2006 cd FIRST TIME OUT w/ Tom Rainier (piano), Yo Cip (tenor), Trey Henry (bass), Ralph Humphrey (drums) *a tune that Prez was fond
    of playing
    7. Charley Krachy & Woody Mann, tenor & guitar duets – cd CONVERSATIONS (New Artists Records) – 16oct2o16 “Pound Cake”
    8. Lewis Winn Trio “Turnaround”(Ornette Coleman) w/ Arnaldo Acosta (drums), Lewis (guitar), Michael Olivola (bass) – 8march2o13 recorded at Studio 725
    9. Alpha Cats live on the Thursday jazz show 12june2oo8 “Bags Groove” w/ Lewis Winn & George Langston (twin guitars), Susan Hyde-Holmes (bass), Cal Haines (drums)
    *They will play this night at the Outpost Performance Space
    10. Bill Perkins & Art Pepper “Diane-a-Flow” w/ Jimmy Rowles (piano), Ben Tucker (bass), Mel Lewis (drums) –Dec.1956 Los Angeles
    11. as previous – tenor & alto saxophones —- “Zenobia”
    12. Anita Brown Jazz Orchestra “Wake Up!” w/ solos: Mike Holober (piano), Dave Pietro (alto), Bruce Eidem (trombone), Scott Harrell (trpt), Anita (vocals) w/ Mary Ann McSweeney (bass) & Tim Horner (drums) & full jazz orchestra —- cd 27 EAST —– 2003 New York

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