The Glenn Spearman Sessionography (February 14, 1947 - October 8, 1998) A work in progress by Rick Lopez. Document begun September 26, 2000 UPDATES October 18, 2008 ©Photo by Michael Wilderman / JazzVisionsPhotos.com.

The Deep Digging; The Incantations;

The Inspirations; All These Words...

Session List :::

• 72.00.00 / Emergency: Homage to Peace (America Records)
• 73.06.15 / Bob REID: The Best of Emergency (Kwela Records)
• 77.07.12 through 77.07.23 / Incident: Incident (Coreco)
• 78.04.11 / Raphé Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording] NYC
• 79.03.04 / Raphé Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording] NYC
• 79.10.10 / Raphé Malik Quartet [Audience Recording] Unna
• 81.05.23 / Glenn Spearman: Night After Night (Musa-Physics) + 81.05.24
• 81.05.24 / Glenn Spearman: Night After Night (Musa-Physics)
• 82.03.01 / ERROR LISTING! Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [See 82.03.21]
• 82.03.18 / Sonny Fortune Sextet [Audience Recording] Detroit
• 82.03.21 / Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording] NYC
• 82.04.11 / Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording] NYC
• 82.04.12 / ERROR LISTING! Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [See 82.04.11]
• 82.04.18 / Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording] NYC
• 82.05.28 / Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording] NYC
• 82.07.03 / Cecil Taylor Unit [Audience Recording] NYC
• 86.08.25 / Trio Hurricane: Suite of Winds (Black Saint)
• 89.08.03 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 90.07.01 / Gregg Simpson: Drum Fire (Condition West)
• 90.09.11 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Broadcast Recording] Berkeley
• 90.10.28 / The Glenn Spearman / John Heward: Utterance (Cadence Jazz Records)
• 90.11.16 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording] Oakland
• 90.12.19 / Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.01.04 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.01.15 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.01.24 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 91.02.12 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.02.27 / Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.05.09-11 / Cecil Taylor and Rada: Live in New York [Broadcast Video; Audience Recording & Video Videos] NYC
• 91.06.12 / Raphé Malik 5tet: 21st Century Texts (Free Music Production)
  • Various Artists: FMP Story (Free Music Production)
• 91.00.00 / Paul Murphy: Outward Bound (Omnisonic)
• 91.08.09 / Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 91.08.11 / Spearman Winant Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording] Oakland
• 91.08.15 / Glenn Spearman Quintet [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 91.08.18 / Spearman Lindgren Duo with Greg Goodman [Audience & Soundboard Recordings] Berkeley
• 91.09.12 / Marco Eneidi: The Marco Eneidi Coalition (Botticelli Records) + 91.09.13
• 91.09.13 / Marco Eneidi: The Marco Eneidi Coalition (Botticelli Records)
• 91.09.21 / Raphé Malik Quintet with Glenn Spearman: Sirens Sweet and Slow (Outsounds)
• 91.10.11 / Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Legacy (FMRJE) + 91.10.27
• 91.10.27 / Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Passport to Freedom (FMRJE)
  • Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Legacy (FMRJE)
• 91.12.03 / Greg Goodman Band [Soundboard Recording] Berkeley
• 91.12.10 / Greg Goodman Band [Soundboard Recording] Berkeley
• 91.12.14 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard Recording] Berkeley
• 91.12.16 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 92.01.11 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 92.01.14 / Glenn Spearman Quintet [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 92.02.08 / Glenn Spearman Trio with J.R. Routhier [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 92.02.29 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Oakland
• 92.03.12 / Glenn Spearman Quintet [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 92.03.20 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio Minus One [Soundboard Recording] Oakland
• 92.04.04 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording] Eugene
• 92.05.27 / Spearman Foley Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording] Berkeley
• 92.06.13 / Glenn Spearman's G-Force [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 92.07.06 / Spearman Foley Lindgren Trio [Broadcast Recording] Berkeley
• 92.07.18 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Nickelsdorf
• 92.08.18 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 92.08.20 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Mystery Project (Black Saint) + 92.08.21
• 92.08.21 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Mystery Project (Black Saint)
• IMAGE: California Jazz Now cover 92.10.00
• 92.11.05 / Glenn Spearman's G-Force [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 92.12.04 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Oakland
• 93.01.24 / Glenn Spearman & James Routhier Duo [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 93.01.31 / Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 93.03.00 / Cecil Taylor Birthday Concert [Audience Video] Boston
• 93.05.14 / Glenn Spearman & Larry Ochs Duo [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 93.06.00 / Lisle Ellis: Elevations (Victo)
• 93.06.11 / ROVA Plus 4 [Audience Video] San Francisco
• 93.06.27 / Lisle Ellis Trio and Septet [Audience Video] San Francisco
• 93.07.09 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard & Video Recordings] Berkeley
• 93.07.24 / Raphé Malik Quintet [Audience Recording] Ottawa
• 93.08.20 / Eddie Gale Quintet [Audience Video] Santa Cruz
• 93.08.28 / Figure 8 (ROVA Plus 4) [Soundboard Recording] Saalfelden
• 93.09.19 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Monterey
• 93.10.08 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard & Video Recordings] San Francisco
• 93.10.20 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Seattle
• 93.10.21 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Vancouver
• 93.10.22 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Vancouver
• 93.10.23 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Eugene
• 93.11.08 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Smokehouse (Black Saint) + 93.11.10
• 93.11.09 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Recording] Emeryville
• 93.11.10 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Smokehouse (Black Saint)
• 93.11.14 / Spearman's G-Force [Audience Video] San Francisco
• 93.12.08 / Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [Audience Recording] Münich
• 94.00.00 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Audience Recording] Oakland
• 94.01.18 / Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [Broadcast Recording] Emeryville
• 94.01.19 / Figure 8 (Rova x 4): Pipe Dreams (Black Saint)
• 94.01.28 / Glenn Spearman Solo [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 94.01.30 / Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording] Berkeley
• 94.02.06 / Paul Plimley Trio [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 94.02.15 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 94.05.02 / Marco Eneidi Quartet [Broadcast Recording] Berkeley
• 94.05.03 / Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 94.05.06 / Glenn Spearman Group [Soundboard Recording] Oakland
• 94.05.00 (1) / Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Let It Go (Red Toucan)
  • Various Artists: amalgam(e) 10 ans de Red Toucan (Red Toucan)
• 94.05.00 (2) / Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds (Black Saint) + 94.06.00; 94.12.00; 95.06.00 (1)
• 94.05.21 / Glenn Spearman's Double Trio [Audience & Soundboard Recordings] Victoriaville
• 94.06.00 / Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds (Black Saint) + 94.05.00 (2); 94.12.00; 95.06.00 (1)
• 94.06.03 / Lisle Ellis: What We Live Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
• 94.06.30 / Various Artists: Transparent Messenger (Rova Saxophone Quartet) *erroneous citation via Tom Lord Jazz Discography
• 94.10.16 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Zurich
• 94.10.18 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Munich
• 94.10.19 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Cologne
• 94.10.20 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Basel
• 94.10.22 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] Nickelsdorf
• 94.10.29 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording] San Francisco
• 94.11.15 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: The Fields (Black Saint) + 94.11.16
• 94.11.16 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio: The Fields (Black Saint)
• 94.12.00 (1) / Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds (Black Saint) + 94.05.00 (2); 94.06.00; 95.06.00 (1)
• 94.12.00 (2) / Don Paul: Flowers Smell Like Gasoline (no label)
• 94.12.11 / Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard Recording] Berkeley
• 95.00.00 (1) / President's Breakfast: Doo Process (Disc Lexia)
• 95.00.00 (2) / President's Breakfast: III C (Disc Lexia)
• IMAGE: Trio Hurrricane appears... 95.00.00
• 95.00.00 (3) / Trio Hurricane + 1 [Audience Recording]
  • Various Artists: Wiretapper 6 Special Edition (WIRE Magazine)
• 95.06.00 (1) / Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds (Black Saint) + 94.06.00; 94.05.00 (2); 94.12.00
• 95.06.00 (2) / Matthew Goodheart: Sonoluminescence (Nine Winds)
• 95.06.06 / Marco Eneidi º Glenn Spearman: Creative Music Orchestra (Music & Arts)
• 95.06.25 / Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Video] San Francisco
• 95.10.26 / Cecil Taylor Orchestra [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 95.11.08 / Surya: Stretching the Edge (Surya)
• 95.12.06 / Rova: John Coltrane's Ascension (Black Saint)
• 96.01.26 / Glenn Spearman Quintet [Broadcast Recording] Köln
• 96.07.27 / Raphé Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
• 96.08.15 / William Hooker: Mindfulness (Knitting Factory)
  • Various Artists: The Texaco New York Jazz Festival Radio Series Live at The Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory)
• 96.09.07 / Marco ENEIDI: Marco ENEIDI & The American Jungle Orchestra: (Boticelli) + 96.09.14; 96.09.21; 96.09.28
• 96.09.14 / Marco ENEIDI: Marco ENEIDI & The American Jungle Orchestra: (Boticelli)
• 96.09.21 / Marco ENEIDI: Marco ENEIDI & The American Jungle Orchestra: (Boticelli)
• 96.09.28 / Marco ENEIDI: Marco ENEIDI & The American Jungle Orchestra: (Boticelli)
• 96.10.00 / Surya: Up (Surya)
• 97.01.25 / Marco Eneidi º Glenn Spearman º William Parker º Jackson Krall: Live at Radio Valencia (Botticelli)
• 97.05.21 / The Glenn Spearman º John Heward Group: th (CIMP) + 97.05.22
  • Various Artists: CIMPosium - Volume 4
• 97.05.22 / The Glenn Spearman º John Heward Group: th (CIMP)
• 97.05.28 / Various Artists: Vision One - Vision Festival 1997 Compiled (AUM Fidelity)
  • Various Artists: Inside Out in the Open (Asymmetric Pictures)
• 97.06.08 / Glenn Spearman: Blues For Falasha (Tzadik)
• 97.07.26 / Trio Hurricane: Live at Fire in the Valley (Eremite)
• 98.00.00 (1) / Urna: Crossroads (unknown label)
• 98.02.18 / Glenn Spearman and Dennis Warren: Duet / Live at the Green Street Grill (FMRJE)
• 98.05.25 / Raphe Malik Quartet: Companions (Eremite)
• 98.07.20 / Glenn Spearman & Dominic Duval: Working With the Elements (CIMP) + 98.07.21
• 98.07.21 / Glenn Spearman & Dominic Duval: Working With the Elements (CIMP)
• 98.07.25 / Glenn Spearman: First and Last (Eremite)

• 68.00.00 - "Back in '68 Spearman used to jam with Charles Moffett, Wilbur Morris and Butch Morris... in an Oakland barbecue joint called Native Son." [David Rubien "Sunday Notebook: Improvisers Play It by Ear At First Bay Area Fest / 15 Eclectic Acts" The San Francisco Chronicle 89.07.30, p.36]
  
  
• 69.00.00 - Spearman's role in the avant-garde scene started in Oakland and Berkeley in the late sixties." [web resource]
  
  Back in California by 1969, he worked in the Bay Area and Los Angeles with such musicians as Butch and Wilbur Morris, Donald Rafael Garrett and Charles Tyler. "The word was out I was this crazy outside cat, overblowing on this horn," Spearman says with a laugh, looking back. "I was into that post-Coltrane total free expression."
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  
• 70.00.00 - "There's certainly a rich tradition of improvised music in the Bay Area. The festival's ‘old-timers’—Ochs, Kaiser, Goodman and Spearman among them—recall a thriving '70s scene centered in long-defunct venues such as the Blue Dolphin, Pangaea, Mapenzi and the Metropolitan Arts Center." [David Rubien "Sunday Notebook: Improvisers Play It by Ear At First Bay Area Fest / 15 Eclectic Acts" The San Francisco Chronicle 89.07.30, p.36]
  
  
• It was [Donald Rafael] Garrett who tipped Spearman to another tenorist working the same vein. "He said to me, 'You know who you sound like? Frank Wright. You gotta check out Frank.' I hadn't heard him, so I got his ESP and BYG records. I saw the latter were made in France, and knew a lot of cats like the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Steve Lacy were over there. So in 1972 I bought a one-way ticket, took my saxophone and went to Paris. Within two days I found Frank and introduced myself, and we began playing together. I became known as his protege; he used to call me Frank Wright Jr." Wright, 12 years Glenn's senior and a powerful overblower himself, exerted a strong influence on the younger musician. But Glenn was independently active too; he made two records with bassist Bob Reid's Emergency, which included the Django-inspired guitarist Boulou Ferre and Japanese percussionist Sabu Toyozumi. (see 70.00.00 and 73.06.15.)
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  NOTE: It has been assumed that the Homage to Peace Emergency LP was recorded in 1973, but several sources, including the re-issue CD from Emarcy/America, have "1970" as the session date. The release date was July 4, 1973. The liner notes were written in 1971. How this all jibes with Glenn's memory of leaving for Paris in "1972" is unclear. —Rick Lopez

72.00.00 • Emergency: Homage to Peace

1. Emergency Theme (Collective) [15:00]
2. People in Sorrow (Roscoe Mitchell) [8:00]
3. Kako Tune (Kako) [12:00]
4. Infidels (Reid) [9:10]

• 7?.00.00 - "Donald Robinson... the early 1970's... first played with Spearman as a duet partner during this period in Paris [http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=14]
• 72.00.00 - He recorded three albums [through the mid-'70s], performed at the Avignon festival and the American Center for Artists, and appeared on French radio and television." [web resource]
• 73.00.00 - "...artist-in-residence, leader, and composer for a student orchestra in Rotterdam. For the next few years he toured Europe extensively with both his own ensemble and other American and European avant-garde musicians..." [web resource]
• 73.02.03 - Glenn Spearman à l'O.R.T.F.: Spearman, Takashi Kako (piano), Boulou Ferré (guitar), Bob Reid (bass), Sabu Toyozumi (drums), Jan Fryderyk Dobrowolski (piano) / Salle 105, Paris, France [Jazz HOT #292 March 1973 p.22]

73.06.15 • Bob Reid Presents: The Best of Emergency

1. Africa is Calling Me (Reid) [11:20]
2. 500 Miles High (Corea) [6:45]
3. Jurakudai (Kako) [18:00]
4. Emergency Theme (Reid) [4:00]

• 73.06.16 - Emergency: Spearman, Takashi Kako (piano), Boulou Ferré (guitar), Bob Reid (bass), Sabu Toyozumi (drums) / Théáatre de la Gaité-Montparnasse, Paris, France [Jazz HOT #292 March 1973 p.26]
• 74-77.00.00 - Through Wright, Glenn made contacts in Rotterdam, went there for the summer and stayed four years. He and some younger Rotterdam players formed a quartet called Incident, which recorded one eponymous album for a little Dutch label. He also renewed his working relationship with Donald Garrett, by now living in Amsterdam, but Glenn never really clicked with the nutty jazz mavericks who gravitated to Amsterdam's BlMhuis. "They thought I was just into a Frank Wright trip, but I had my own evolution going on. I was getting beyond the overblowing and the harmonic screaming, getting into the jazz literature and getting serious about technique"- though always as a means to greater self-expression, not as an end in itself.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
• 77.03.29-04.02 - Bob Reid's The Emergency Sound: (no personnel details) Spearman perhaps? / "...presents Africa Is Calling Me, Ali's Alley, New York City [CODA #155 May-June 1977 p.34]

77.07.12 through 77.07.23 • Incident: Incident

1. Spooks (Armfield / Spearman) [8:39]
2. Herrie (Spearman) [7:42]
3. Loaded Rough Lunch (Spearman) [4:59]
4. Incident (Piller) [10:26]
5. A Music Ensemble (Collective) [13:36]

• 77-78.00.00 - "By around 1977 1 knew I had to decide whether to go home, or to be here forever. I felt the music going flat: the struggle of playing this music in America contributes to its fire and passion. Then Frank Wright introduced me to Cecil Taylor, and I knew the next thing for me to do was to get with the master. We hung out a couple of days, and Cecil asked me, 'When are you going to come to New York?' That was it in 1978, I moved to New York." There he woodshedded daily, and worked with Taylor's trumpeter Raphé Malik: "That got me close to Cecil's musical architecture and methodology. Raphé helped me realize how difficult and highly structured that music really is - it's really the opposite of free jazz. I wanted nothing more than to be hired by Cecil, but we both knew I wasn't ready."
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  
• 78.00.00 - "In regards to the Glenn Spearmann discography: There is a tenor sax player identified as 'Glenn Spears' on Cha Cha Shaw's 2nd Folkways LP, 'Kingdom Come' issued in 1979. I've heard from other collectors that this is in fact Glenn Spearman." [Wade Kergan correspondence] Does anyone know anything about this? Rick Lopez

78.04.11 • Raphé Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording]
WKCR-FM

1. unknown title [ : ]

79.03.04 • Raphé Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording]
Live Radio Broadcast, WKCR-FM

1. unknown title [15:00]

79.10.10 • Raphé Malik Quartet [Audience Recording]

1. SUITE: Life Without Lloyd Part 1 [40:49]
2. Life Without Lloyd Part 2 [11:30]
3. Life Without Lloyd Part 3 [29:07]
4. Life Without Lloyd Part 4 [06:57]

• 79.11.02 - Raphe Malik Quartet: Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Jay Oliver (bass), Steve McCraven (drums, percussion) / Bataclan, Paris, France [Alex Dutilh, Jazz Hot September-December 1979, pp.373]
• 79.11.11 - Raphe Malik Quartet: Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Parker (bass), Kuwama (drums, percussion) / Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, Austria [Bjorn Dirlack 05.08.01; the book "Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, The 20th Anniversary Album"]
  
  
• 81.00.00 - In 1981, he returned to the Bay Area, where he and future Double Trio drummer Donald Robinson put out a duo LP, Night After Night, which drew critical comparisons to the Coltrane Rashied Ali duets. Then Taylor drafted Spearman for a big band to play eight weeks at Lush Life. That led to a few gigs with Cecil's other bands, a seven-piece group which played for dancers, and a six-piece Cecil Taylor Unit including Malik, Jimmy Lyons, William Parker and Rashid Bakr "That's where I got my advanced degree in music," says Glenn.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]

81.05.23
81.05.24 • Glenn Spearman: Night After Night

1. Atlanta [12:25]
2. Aithien [2:22]
3. Futura [7:07]
4. Uran [13:05]
5. Ictus [7:16]

• "Spearman then became a member of the Cecil Taylor Unit, and Taylor's New York-based Big Band and Dance Orchestra." [web resource]

• "Cecil Taylor, the pianist, will lead a big band, which has been named the Expanded Unit, in a series of engagements at Lush Life... Mr. Taylor said his band would use new material. 'I have been waiting years to form this band,' he said, 'and the book will be all fresh works.' The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit will perform March 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 9:30 and 11:30pm and 1:15am." [New York Times February 18, 1982]
  
  82.03.07 - Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit: Jimmy Lyons (alto sax), Craig Harris (trombone), Danny Carter (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), James Newton (flute), Raphe Malik (trumpet), Butch Morris (trumpet), Karen Borca (bassoon), Ken Simon (alto sax), Muneer Abdul Fataah (cello), William Parker (bass), Rashid Bakr (drums) / Lush Life, New York City

• 82.03.14 - Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit: Craig Harris (trombone), Danny Carter (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), David Murray (reeds), James Newton (flute), Charles Tyler (baritone sax), Raphe Malik (trumpet), Butch Morris (trumpet), Karen Borca (bassoon), Ken Simon (alto sax), Muneer Abdul Fataah (cello), William Parker (bass), Rashid Bakr (drums) / Lush Life, New York City
  "...residency on Sundays through a recent two-month stretch." [More than the four March dates mentioned above.] "...on this second Sunday, Lyons replaced by Murray ... more than 90 minute set..." [Lee Jeske, Down Beat June 1982, p.59]

82.03.18 • Sonny Fortune Sextet [Audience Recording]

1. Ichob's Shuffle
2. Turning It Over
3. Parahilium
4. This Side Of Infinity

82.03.21 • [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [53:42] (fades in, split track with fade out and in at 37:08, ends with applause)

2. unknown title [22:15] (fades in, incomplete, cuts out at end)

[76:29]

• 82.03.28 - The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit: Jimmy Lyons, James Newton, David Murray, Craig Harris, Butch Morris, Muneer (cello), Karen Borca (bassoon) Raphé Malik, Glenn Spearman, Charles Tyler, Daniel Carter, Ken Simon (soprano sax), William Parker, Rashid Bakr, Andre Martinez / Lush Life, NYC [ibid]
• 82.04.04 - The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit: (no personnel details) similar to above dates, plus Andre Martinez / Lush Life, NYC "...every Sunday I was a full time member of the Band and spent many, many, many hours (and days and years) with the maestro from this point on till Sept. '92. ...There were a lot of changes in the horn section from gig to gig. We rehearsed at the Bell Telephone Building in lower Manhattan across the street from the Odeon Cafe, which is still there. We would go there on many occassions to eat after rehearsals. ...it was at ESP Records [recording studio], Bernard Stollman's place (as confirmed by Karen Borca) and I would see Jerome Cooper there. I missed two [of the] weekends at Lush Life because I was under contract with Dee Dee Sharp to do some concerts for her and Gamble & Huff Productions in Philadelphia. Which was cool with Cecil, as he was always curious about thier operations and show productions. ...extensive conversations I had with Cecil... led to a lot of the new concepts for his upcoming shows. ...From this point on Cecil's shows began to change and become more like productions [with] intros, poetry, dance, chanting... Pieces were scored as sections where moments of inspiration and melodic romantic-type melodies took place, encores were shortened but the power and creative fury and freedom remained. It was about show and production, layout and format: Intro and dance; followed by Chant; then entrance and set theme; followed by a more intense piece; then a few solos; then a medium piece; followed by an all-out piece—then bring it down, then up and out. Then do a small encore, leave, and let them come again for more the next time—Show biz. And it worked very well for Cecil the great entertainer and musician. Some of the other horn players were Steve Coleman, James Newton and David Murray..." [Andre Martinez archive, 02.10.18-19; 02.10.24]

82.04.11 • The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [31:45]

2. unknown title [46:51] (incomplete)

[79:33]

• 82.04.12 - INCORRECT date (see 82.04.12) Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit, Lush Life, NYC (The Expanded Unit only performed on Sundays)

82.04.18 • The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [45:00]

• 82.04.25 - The Cecil Taylor Big Band: (as above) / Lush Life, NYC [ibid]
• 82.05.27 - Cecil Taylor and Segments: Expanded Unit / Judson Memorial Church, NYC (see 82.05.28 below)

82.05.28 • Cecil Taylor and Segments / Expanded Unit [Audience Recording]

1. The Eye of the Crocodile, part 1 [13:18]
2. The Eye of the Crocodile, part 2 [17:12]
3. The Eye of the Crocodile, part 3 [9:24]
4. The Eye of the Crocodile, part 4 [19:03]

• 82.05.29
  82.05.30 - Cecil Taylor and Segments / Expanded Unit / Judson Memorial Church, NYC (see 82.05.28 above)
• 82.06.29
  82.06.30
  82.07.01
  82.07.02 - (and 82.07.03 below!) - Cecil Taylor Unit: Jimmy Lyons, William Parker, Rashid Bakr, Raphé Malik, Glen Spearman, Martinez / Lush Life, NYC "Lester Bowie sat in on one of the gigs." --Andre Martinez archive, correspondence 02.10.18, in which he also confirms all dates: "Lush Life schedule from the back of 'Hot House' (a jazz night-life guide) Vol.1 No.5 July 1982 [Only 06.29 & 06.30 mentioned in review in CODA #185 August 1982 pp.25-6]

82.07.03 • Cecil Taylor Unit [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [74:44] (incomplete, fades out)

• 84.00.00 - "In 1984, he relocated back to the Bay Area while continuing to perform all over North America and Europe." [web resource]
  
  
• 86.00.00 - ...1986, back in the Bay Area, Spearman had a trio with cellist Kash Killion and ex-Lyons drummer Paul Murphy.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]

86.08.25 • Trio Hurricane: Suite of Winds

1. North (Murphy) [15:22]
2. South (Murphy) [10:58]
3. East (Parker) [18:49]
4. West (Spearman) [2:18]

• 87.05.01
  87.05.02 - The New York Free Jazz Quintet: William Parker (bass), Raphe Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor saxophone), Karen Borca (bassoon), Paul Murphy (percussion) / 10pm, Kraine Club Theater, NYC [New York Times 87.05.01]
• 88.00.00 - "Ellis met Spearman four years ago at an avant-garde festival put on by the Knitting Factory in New York..." [David Rubien "Sunday Notebook: Lisle Ellis / Canadian Bass Player Follows Heart to Jazz" The San Francisco Chronicle 92.06.07, p.44]
• 88.04.14 - William Parker: Glenn Spearman, no others listed... / "On the flyer for the 2nd Sound Unity Festival, there's a William Parker Ensemble (w/Glenn Spearman, no other personnel listed) scheduled for 11:30 PM at the Knitting Factory (47 East Houston)..." Scott Currie 06.07.10
  
  1988 bassist William Parker brought Spearman to New York to play with him at a festival, where he also played with trumpeter Bill Dixon, and met Montreal-based bassist Lisle Ellis. Through Lisle, the saxophonist began working in Canada, and hooked up with the flinty Montreal drummer John Heward, with whom he recorded a duo cassette, Utterance.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  
• 88.04.17 - Bill Dixon & Sound Unity Orchestra: Bill Dixon, Arthur Brooks (trumpet), Roy Campbell (trumpet), Leo Smith (trumpet), David S. Ware (tenor sax), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Jemeel Moondoc (alto sax), Karen Borca (bassoon), Bill Lowe (tuba), Nioka Workman (cello), Mario Pavone (bass), William Parker (bass), Lawrence Cook (drums) / Sound Unity Festival, 7:30 PM, Kraine Club Gallery, NYC ["This was Sound Unity's closing act to nearly a week of good music." correspondence, Marc Edwards]
• 88.06.25 - Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Peter Hinds (percussion) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds correspondence 04.01.06]
• 88.07.16 - Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Kash Killion (cello) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds correspondence 04.01.06]
• 89.04.28 - Glenn Spearman Quartet: India Cooke, Kash Killion, Paul Murphy / "I put up the money for a Spearman concert in Santa Cruz back in... 1989, I believe... it was on a Friday night, that is the night of the week when they present(ed) non-national/local/regional acts. Normally groups played for the door—I put up a guarantee since Glenn and crew were coming down from Oakland. His group was a quartet. Personnel probably included Ben Lindgren, may have also included Kash Killion or India Cooke, perhaps Don Robinson or Paul Murphy on drums... all that is speculation." (personnel and exact date in Cadence) / Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA [Graham Connah oorrespondence 03.02.17; 03.03.09; Cadence Vol. 15 no. 4 April '89, p.92]

89.08.02 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [15:23] (cuts in during intro)

2. unknown title [4:31]

3. unknown title [3:23]

[24:07]

• 89.08.10 - Glenn Spearman Ensemble: (no personnel details) / 21st Ann Concord Jazz Festival, 11:30pm-1:30am, Brown Bag Jazz at Bishop Ranch 2, San Ramon, CA [box ad schedule photocopy]
• 89.08.11 - Glenn Spearman Ensemble: (no personnel details) / 21st Ann Concord Jazz Festival, 8-11:00pm, An Evening of Jazz, Parkside Hotel, Walnut Creek, CA [box ad schedule photocopy]

• 90.04.00 - "In April 1990 Glenn was expecting to make a record for Silkheart... Unfortunately Knox lost interest so the quartet recording never came out." —Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006.

• 90.05.17 - Reverend Frank Wright, one of Spearman's main influences, dies this day in Germany.
  "‘Frank Wright just died a week ago Sunday,’ Ellis noted,* suddenly, referring to the Mississippi-born, Paris-based tenorman who worked occasionally in the Taylor Unit. He was 54.
  ‘The American government was making plans to ship his body back to the U.S. for burial in Mississippi. And that's the first thing America's ever done for Frank Wright.’" [Mark Miller The Globe and Mail 90.06.29, Sec.C p.10]
  B* [But 05.17 was a Thursday... unless Ellis means (or actually said) a month ago Sunday (06.17). —RL]

• 90.06.04 - "...my immediate project is on June 4 recording either the Glenn Spearman Quartet (tenor sax, India Cooke violin, Kash Killion cello and Donald Robinson drums) or Sextet (the same plus Lisle Ellis bass and Paul Plimley piano). This is the only definite date. The next could be in June in Vancouver (Lisle Ellis, Paul Plimley and myself, a trio without drums)..."—Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 91.07.02 / Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006: "I know the quartet at least happened because years later Glenn mentioned he couldn't find the tapes!"
• 90.06.19 - Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, "probably Paul Plimley" / CAC, "...a photography exhibition opening" [Laurence Svirchev correspondence 03.12.18]
• 90.06.22-07.02 -Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, others? / "[Spearman] has been sitting in nightly..." / Glass Slipper, duMaurier Jazz Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Laurence Svirchev correspondence 03.12.18; "All That Jazz" column by Renee Doruyter, in The Province, 90.06.28]
• 90.06.28 - Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, Paul Plimley / 9:00pm, Tom Lee Music Hall, duMaurier Jazz Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [ibid; Mark Miller The Globe and Mail 90.06.29, Sec.C p.10]
• 90.06.30 - Lisle Ellis Quartet: Glenn Spearman, Paul Plimley, Andrew Cyrille (drums) / 2:30pm, Discovery Theatre, Plaza of Nations, duMaurier Jazz Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Mark Miller The Globe and Mail 90.06.29, Sec.C p.10]

90.07.01 • Gregg Simpson: Drum Fire

1. The Conversation [20:56]

• 90.08.00 - The concept of the Double Trio was born at Oakland's second Improvisers Festival in 1990. Spearman had long admired the work of his friend Larry Ochs, of the Rova Saxophone Quartet-- "a hellified horn player," Glenn says. Ochs was at the festival with the new music trio Room, with pianist Chris Brown and percussionist William Winant... Spearman was appearing with bassist Ben Lindgren and Donald Robinson. They decided to combine ail these players to create the Double Trio. The band played its first gig at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall in December of '91.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  

90.09.11 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Broadcast Recording]
KPFA-FM Radio

1. Roof of the World [ : ]
2. Open Aperture [ : ]
3. Tribute to Frank Wright [ : ]

• 90.10.05 - Glenn Spearman & Lisle Ellis Duo / T.I.M.E. OUT Festival, Euclid Theatre, Toronto

90.10.28 • The Glenn Spearman / John Heward: Utterance

1. Tongues [27:59]
2. The Solidification of Fires [15:30]
3. Summoning Voices [12:43]

90.11.16 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording]

1. Roof of the World [ : ]

90.12.19 • Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

91.01.04 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

91.01.15 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording]

1. AntiWar [ : ]
2. King's Birthday [ : ]
3. D-Day [ : ]

91.01.24 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording]

1. Mad Monk's Quartet [ : ]

• 91.02.05 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel info), but probably the Ellis Trio noted below... / Cafe G Sharp, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [CODA #237 May 1991 p.4]

91.02.12 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Rehearsal Recording]

1. Stone Dove [ : ]

91.02.27 • Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording]

1. First Rain [ : ]

• 91.00.00 - Lisle Ellis Trio: Raphe Malik, Glenn Spearman / San Francisco, CA
• 91.03.00 - "I've been on the east coast since March this year..." —Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 91.07.02 (Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006)
• 91.03.00 - "Raphe Malik and Phil Pearson alternate Monday and Tuesday evenings..." (no personnel, possibly same trio as below.) / Featured through March. Possible dates ::: 91.03.04-05; 03.11-12; 03.18-19; 03.25-26. / The Willow Jazz Club, Boston, MA [Cadence Vol. 17 no. 3 March 1991, p.92]
• 91.03.06 - Lisle Ellis Trio: Glenn Spearman, Raphe Malik / Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada / "billed as a solo bass performance, but Ellis turned up with..." [Mark Miller The Globe and Mail 91.03.08, Sec.C p.7]
  CODA #238 July 1991 p.10 has the date above wrongly pegged as 91.03.16.
• 91.03.00 - Lisle Ellis Trio: Raphe Malik, Glenn Spearman / Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 91.04.24
  91.04.25
  91.04.26 - "Glenn also recorded at Mapleshade between April 24 & 26, 1991 with a quartet including Raphe, William Parker, and Paul Murphy. It was really hot! After William and Paul left, Glenn and Raphe recorded a batch of duets. None of this has been released and it is questionable as to whether the tapes can be found or have been ruined..." / Upper Marlboro, MD [Michael Wilderman 08.03.14]

• Glenn spent most of 1991 on the road; among other projects, he appeared with a thundering Taylor nonet at New York's Knitting Factory, and did a European tour with Raphé Malik's quintet, documented on 21st Century Texts (FMP).
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]

91.05.09
91.05.10
91.05.11 • Cecil Taylor and Rada: Live in New York [Broadcast Video; Audience Recordings; Audience Videos]
Japan Satellite Broadcasting

1. unknown titles [ : ]

91.06.12 • Raphé Malik 5tet: 21st Century Texts {1}

• Various Artists: FMP Story {2}
  Free Music Production Musica Jazz FMP MJ 01 (CD)1996 GER

1. AB dedicated to A.B. Spellman [15:26] {1}
2. CC dedicated to Duke Ellington [6:50] {1,2}
3. BLUE 2 dedicated to Miles Davis [5:37] {1}
4. TALK dedicated to Miles Davis [14:51] {1}
5. COMPANIONS TOO dedicated to Jimmy Lyons [9:06] {1}
6. IT'S QUIET TIME dedicated to Thelonius Monk [8:07] {1}
7. EXTENSIONS [14:02] {1}

• 91.07.02 - "On July 2, 1991, Glenn expressed annoyance that [Keith] Knox [of Silkheart Records] had lost interest. But he said he had just finished a duet project with William Parker (bass) and that very week was recording with WP and Paul Murphy (drums)." —Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006

91.00.00 • Paul Murphy: Outward Bound

1. [16:30]
2. [5:52]
3. [8:11]
4. [7:03]
5. [11:01]
6. [10:41]
7. [5:26]

91.08.09 • Spearman Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording]

1. Improvisations [ : ]

91.08.11 • Spearman Winant Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording]

1. Crazy Wisdom [ : ]

91.08.15 • Glenn Spearman Quintet [Soundboard Recording]

1. Painted with Lightning [ : ]

91.08.18 • Spearman Lindgren Duo with Greg Goodman [Audience & Soundboard Recordings]

1. unknown title [9:08] (incomplete, cuts in)
2. unknown title [15:28]
3. Inside & Out [9:32]

91.09.12
91.09.13 • Marco Eneidi: The Marco Eneidi Coalition

1. Albert's Ghost (Eneidi) [1:40]
2. Get Out (Eneidi) [9:50]
3. Diads (Jimmy Lyons) [15:37]
4. Ode for B.D. (Eneidi) [8:25]
5. Never (Jimmy Lyons) [19:27]

91.09.21 • Raphé Malik Quintet with Glenn Spearman: Sirens Sweet and Slow

1. Tenor (Malik) [20:13]

91.10.11 • Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Legacy

1. FMRJE Live at Vermont Public Radio FM USA [21:06]

91.10.27 • Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Passport to Freedom

• Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble: Legacy {2}
  FMRJE (no catalogue #) (CD) 2004

1. Passport to Freedom [18:37] {2}
2. Jet Stream [5:29] {2}
3. Search for Griots [2:08]
4. Eye in the Heart [9:51]
5. Future Now Music [12:47]
6. Chroma [7:59]
7. Alive & Strugglin' [3:17]

91.12.03 • Greg Goodman Band [Soundboard Recording]

1. Threads [ : ]

91.12.10 • Greg Goodman Band [Soundboard Recording]

1. Threads [ : ]

91.12.14 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

91.12.16 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Recording]

1. Horus, SD III [58:08] (split track at 51:01)
2. Thinking of Frank [28:44] (followed by recording gap, track missing?)
   Glenn Spearman announcement
3. Straight Up, Straight Out [4:52]

• 92.00.00 - "Spearman received a 'Goldie' award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1992 for taking 'fringe music to the future.'" [web resource]

Two unissued sessions and an image, with notation by Igor Danilishen.

92.01.11 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Recording] January 11, 1992 / The Heinz Afterworld Lounge, Oakland, CA 1. S. D. III, Horus, Straight Up, Straight Out [41:40] (Continuous set)  Glenn Spearman announcement [0:45] "Two Sets." —Eleanor Lindgren Glenn Spearman (tenor sax) Larry Ochs (tenor and sopranino sax) Donald Robinson (percussion) Ben Lindgren (double bass) Chris Brown (keyboards) William Winant (percussion) {Primary Source: CD-R; Eleanor Lindgren 08.05.13 / Ben Lindgren Recording Archive}

92.01.14 • Glenn Spearman Quintet [Broadcast Recording] Live Broadcast on KPFA-FM Radio January 14, 1992 / KPFA-FM Studio, Berkeley, CA 1. Geronimo's Song or Lester's Interview [47:20]  radio announcement [0:26] Glenn Spearman (tenor sax) J.R. Routhier (guitar) Ben Lindgren (double bass) Donald Robinson (percussion) Spirit (percussion) {Primary Source: CD-R}

The performances on these disks have been culled from a tape that came to my possession in February, 1992, when I was Greyhounding coast to coast all the way from New York to Seattle and then up to Vancouver, where I visited with my friends at the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society. After having stayed there for a month or so enjoying the local jazz scene (will never forget the Glass Slipper!), I felt that the gravitational pull of the Golden-Gate Bridge was not only especially strong but actually irresistible there. Its image, inseparable from that of the Beautiful City of San Francisco, had haunted me all through the years of my life behind the Potato Curtain. I was in Vancouver when I first heard the name of Glenn Spearman from John Orysik, my Ukrainian friend who was at the time the PR man with Coastal Jazz & Blues. "You go crash on Glenn Spearman. He's our man and he's played DuMaurier. He's an incredibly decent cat and will harbor this undocumented alien." Glenn lived at that time in Oakland, within walking distance from Berkeley. It wasn't exactly a wealthy man's house, but a hip place actually owned (or rented) by Don Robinson, Glenn's drummer, who lived there with his son. I called them from the Greyhound station. Don gave me instructions on how to get there. I got there. I brought them a bottle of Ukrainian vodka with a red pepper on the bottom. I told them my story. I told them how much I wanted to see THE BRIDGE. Glenn's voice is still in my ears: "Just listen to what this Ukrainian gentleman has to say..." With Don's blessing, I stayed. Don had just bought a computer and was glued to it day and night. Glenn was getting ready for a gig in San Francisco and was pretty busy with his horn. I had the privilege of hearing him practicing. His sound was big and warm. He had an old cassette tape recorder, without a lid, and a bunch of tapes. I remember he was playing them loud, putting treble to the max and cutting most of the bass... This is the way I like it, man... He would slam a tape in, check this out, this is Frank Wright, he's my main man... Now check this one out, this pianist's name is Cecil Taylor. Ever heard of Cecil? I have played with him... I answered that I've heard of Cecil Taylor. I said I loved Conquistador and Dark to Themselves and added that Cecil was playing beautiful music. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR!! He almost embraced me. That was as analytical as we got discussing the music of Cecil Taylor. On the next morning, we took a long walk along Telegraph, all the way into Berkeley. Glenn showed me where the "Amoeba" and "Rasputin" stores were. He also pointed me to a spot from which one could see THE BRIDGE in the distance. My first glimpse of the craved civil engineering wonder... We had a pizza. We met some of his friends, including his bassist with the double trio Ben Lindgren, who also is an accomplished artist. Ben was extremely friendly and invited me over to his place on Deakin Street in Berkeley, where I later spent a few days enjoying his hospitality. Ben had a reel tape machine in his home and hundreds of tapes of live and radio performances. So he put one of them on a TDK IEC Type IV and gave it to me to take back to Ukraine. I had a friend in Kiev who had produced, among others, ROVA's performances during their tour of Russia back in 1983. The intention was to give the tape to him so that he could check it out and possibly help arrange Glenn's trip to Ukraine some time in the future. Alas, that never came to be, because my dear friend Alexander Filatov was already sick and was living on borrowed time... He died of cancer in 1994. So I kept the tape you are listening to now. Neither of these performances have been released. This humble home production is my expression of love for Glenn Spearman and is a limited edition of 1 (one) 2CD set made for solely informational purposes, to be used by his discographers. Glenn also gave me his self-produced LP Night After Night (MusaPhysics) - duets with Don Robinson - and a tape of Utterance which I believe came out on Cadence recently... "We load our emissary and send him back to Ukraine..." On the last night of my stay with Glenn and Don, I was already in bed when Glenn came home late. "How is it going, Igor? Have you seen the Golden Gate Bridge?" - "I walked all the way to Marin County and back." - "Good man!" The photo on the cover was taken in February, 1992, during the Glenn Spearman Trio's gig in a downtown club (the name escapes me) in San Francisco. Ben Lindgren can be seen on the right, and Don Robinson is hiding behind Glenn. It was power play all through, like there was no tomorrow. Actually, there wasn't much of it left for our friend Glenn... —Igor Danilishen, from Ukraine with Love

Photo courtesy Igor Danilishen

92.02.08 • Glenn Spearman Trio with J.R. Routhier [Soundboard Recording]

1. "Two Sets" [ : ]

92.02.29 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. "Two Sets" [ : ]

92.03.12 • Glenn Spearman Quintet [Soundboard Recording]

1. "Two Sets" [ : ]

92.03.20 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio Minus One [Soundboard Recording]

1. "Two Sets" [ : ]

92.04.04 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

92.05.27 • Spearman Foley Lindgren Trio [Rehearsal Recording]

1. "2nd Rehearsal" [ : ]

• 92.06.09 - Lisle Ellis & Glenn Spearman Duo / Berkeley Store Gallery [David Rubien "Sunday Notebook: Lisle Ellis / Canadian Bass Player Follows Heart to Jazz" The San Francisco Chronicle 92.06.07, p.44]
• 92.06.11 - Glenn Spearman's G-Force: James Routhier (guitar), Lisle Ellis (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) / Olive Oil's, San Francisco, CA [David Rubien "Sunday Notebook: Lisle Ellis / Canadian Bass Player Follows Heart to Jazz" The San Francisco Chronicle 92.06.07, p.44]

92.06.13 • Glenn Spearman's G-Force [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [25:21]
2. Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez) [17:15]
3. Short Peace / Geronimo's Song (continuous) [16:26]

• 92.06.19-28 (1) - Spearman, Ellis and Heward / du Maurier International Jazz Festival, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Cadence Vol.18 no.8 August 1992, p.20]
  "...were reunited to play burning after-hours sets at Vancouver's jazz festival in 1992.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]
  
  
• 92.06.19-28 (2) - Spearman, Ellis, Plimley, and Heward / du Maurier International Jazz Festival, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / "[Ellis and Heward] did two boisterous nights with Frank Wright disciple Glenn Spearman, Plimley sitting in the second..." [Cadence Vol.18 no.8 August 1992, p.20]

92.07.06 • Spearman Foley Lindgren Trio [Broadcast Recording]
KPFA-FM Live Broadcast, "Mob Ecstasy" Poetry and Jazz Program

• University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library, Listening copy SPL-1395

1. unknown title [25:21]
2. Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez) [17:15]
3. Short Peace / Geronimo's Song (continuous) [16:26]

92.07.18 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. Horus [ : ]
2. SD III [ : ]
3. Thinking of Framk [ : ]

92.08.18 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• After extensive rehearsals and another half-dozen gigs in California and Europe, the [Double Trio] went into their studio.
  [from Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn from his Mystery Project CD]

92.08.20
92.08.21 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Mystery Project

1. Straight Up, Straight Out (Spearman) [7:54]
2. Double Image (Ochs) [14:40]
3. Horus (Spearman) [21:54]
4. S. D. III (Spearman) [12:08]
5. Thinking of Frank (Spearman) [11:16]

Cover California Jazz Now, October, 1992 / Berkeley Store Gallery Photo by Eleanor Lindgren.

92.11.05 • Glenn Spearman's G-Force [Audience Recording]

1. Operation at the Level of the Phrase [16:37]
2. unknown title [17:33]
3. Geronimo`s Song [16:51]
4. Horus [14:33]
5. announcement by Spearman... Lyons' Roar [8:45]

92.12.04 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 92-93.00.00 - "Spearman began at Mills as a guest lecturer for a freshwoman seminar presented by David Bernstein and Thomas Strychacz in 1992. ‘The minute Glenn started talking,’ said Bernstein, ‘we knew he was a gifted teacher.’ Spearman joined Mills in 1993 and took on the Creative Music Tradition class where he lectured on jazz greats like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday and Sun Ra. Spearman was also a great help to his colleagues. ‘Glenn helped develop their improvisational skills within a context close to the African American tradition,’ said Bernstein, who regarded Spearman as ‘a mentor for those folks in our department.’" [Bay Area Artists of the Diaspora: Glenn Spearman, the Mills College Archives]
• 93.01.00 - "...sax player Glenn Spearman came to Alan and asked about the availability of Radio Valencia for a last-minute Sunday performance by visiting trumpet player Raphe Malik. The Malik-Spearman show was so successful that it spawned a Sunday series of Spearman sessions with various musicians. Spearman still regularly plays Radio Valencia with his bands G-Force and the Glenn Spearman Double Trio. ...the Sunday experimental and improvisational jazz series is a fixture." [Michael Snyder "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 94.10.16, p.39]

93.01.24 • Glenn Spearman & James Routhier Duo [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [10:02]
2. untitled [9:05]
3. Lyons Roar [10:02]
4. July '87 [9:42]
5. Room 2 [10:13]
6. unknown title [9:40]
7. Geronimo's Song [9:37]
8. Good News Blues (Jimmy Lyons) [3:48]

93.01.31 • Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 93.02.07 - "...Spearman hosted a series of shows in February at Radio Valencia... teaming him with a variety of Bay Area improvisers like William Winant and Larry Ochs" / San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.19 no.3 March 1993 p.4]
• 93.02.14 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 93.02.21 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 93.02.28 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [ibid]

93.03.00 • Cecil Taylor Birthday Concert [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• "...a May in which I played about 15 concerts..." —Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 91.09.01 (Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006)

93.05.14 • Glenn Spearman & Larry Ochs Duo [Audience Recording]

1. Open (Spearman) [10:43]
2. Arista Africa Napata (Spearman) [9:51]
3. Next Seen (Ochs) [07:25]
4. Mothers (Ayler) [10:47] (cut-out from 1:11 to 1:40, probable tape flip)

1. Painless (Ochs) [07:42]
2. Celestial Source (Spearman) [06:52]
3. Asaph (Spearman) [02:25]

• 93.05.24 - Glenn Spearman Trio, Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [correspondence Graham Connah 03.03.12]

93.06.00 • Lisle Ellis: Elevations

1. Ground take 1 (Ellis) [12:07]
2. Lacuna dedicated to Jimmy Lyons (Ellis) [6:01]
3. Life Cycle (Ellis) [5:15]
4. P.B. Parable (Ellis) [4:58]
5. Mothers (Albert Ayler) [6:05]6
6. Re: Call (Ellis) [8:23]
7. Ground take 2 (Ellis) [12:08]

93.06.11 • ROVA Plus 4 [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [approx. 50:00]

• 93.06.12 - Figure Eight: Larry Ochs, Tim Berne, Jon Raskin, Vinny Golia, Steve Adams, Glenn Spearman, Bruce Ackley, Dave Barrett / Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA / Noted: "AUD 90" exists [William Dennehy correspondence 03.10.14]

93.06.27 • Lisle Ellis Trio and Septet (?) [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [approx. 50:00]

• 93.07.08 - President's Breakfast; Dred Scott (keys, percussion), Click Dark (drums, lead hair), Nate Pitts (bass), Glenn Spearman / DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA / "I'm pretty sure we played another time or two..." [correspondence Bill Langton 02.12.14]

93.07.09 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard & Video Recordings]

1. Bicycle Sculptures [ : ]

93.07.24 • Raphé Malik Quintet [Broadcast Recording]

1. Ballad (Jimmy Lyons) [6:08]
2. unknown title [10:01]
3. AB (Raphe Malik) [10:32] (incomplete, fades out)
4. unknown title [10:48]
5. unknown title [5:08]

• "...working in Canada, San Francisco, Austria, Holland getting around a bit working Double Trio and my new band G-Force plus with Raphe Malik Quintet, plus lots of duets locally about 14 this year... I'm here in California, the best scene in improv in America is the San Francisco Bay Area right now. I've worked Great American Music Hall and Slim's, two big rock houses had over 200 people to the Double Trio at Slim's, mixing with the hip-hop acid-jazz boys. Incredible..." —Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 93.08.13 (Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006)

93.08.20 • Eddie Gale Quintet [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

93.08.28 • Figure 8 (ROVA Plus 4) [Soundboard Recording]

1. soundcheck, intro [4:05]
2. Headcount [4:05]
3. Initials [19:10]
   applause / announcement Ackley [1:40]
4. Triceratops [26:40] (split track at 17:20)
5. unknown title [2:35]
   applause / announcement Ackley [4:40]
6. Tracers [21:25]

• 93.09.00 - "I'm making a tapefor you with myself and various strings. Hope you enjoy it, me, Kash cello, India violin, and Lisle Ellis bass-sax duet...." —Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 91.09.01 / "...Bute later Glenn told me he couldn't find them in my stash!" —Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006

  "Haven't done much of any work this summer, been slow for me, just a couple of gigs after a May in which I played about 15 concerts. Feast or famine, it's still that way for me..." —Glenn Spearman letter to Roy Morris 91.09.01 (Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006)

93.09.19 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

93.10.08 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard & Video Recordings]

1. Bedouin Hornbook [ : ]

93.10.20 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. "2 Sets" [ : ]

93.10.21 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

93.10.22 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

93.10.23 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. "2 Sets" [ : ]

• 93.10.31 (or)
  93.11.07 (possible, also 93.11.21) - John Tchicai: (no personnel details) / "...future Sundays will offer such artists as Herbie Lewis, Tony Passarell, Ben Lindgren, Glenn Spearman, and Lisle Ellis; and a bunch of actors and musicians are collaborating for a final extravaganza." / Bannam Place Theater, North Beach, CA [David Rubien "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 93.10.24, p.23]

93.11.08 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Smokehouse

1. Painted with Lightning [18:21]
2. Asaph [4:56]

93.11.09 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience & Soundboard Recordings]

1. No (Ochs) [3:35]
2. Axe, Beautiful Acts [10:20]
3. Operation at the Level of the Phrase [16:57]
4. Painted with Lightning [19:01]
5. Celestial Source [4:26]
6. announcement Ochs / Asaph [5:40]

93.11.10 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Smokehouse

1. Axe, Beautiful Acts (Intake) (Spearman) [12:42]
2. No! (Ochs) [5:01]
3. Celestial Source (Spearman) [5:03]
4. Operation at the Level of the Phrase (Spearman) [18:22]
5. Axe, Beautiful Acts (Out-take) (Spearman) [10:46]

93.11.14 • Glenn Spearman's G-Force [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [approx. 50:00]

• 93.11.21 (possible, see 93.10.31 above) - John Tchicai: (no personnel details) / "...future Sundays will offer such artists as Herbie Lewis, Tony Passarell, Ben Lindgren, Glenn Spearman, and Lisle Ellis; and a bunch of actors and musicians are collaborating for a final extravaganza." / Bannam Place Theater, North Beach, CA [David Rubien "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 93.10.24, p.23]

93.12.08 • Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [Audience Recording]

1. unknown titles [74:51]

94.00.00 • Glenn Spearman Quartet [Audience Recording]

1. Jerry (Frank Wright) [10:31]
2. Double Image / Horus / SD III [38:50] (continuous, cuts in at beginning)

94.01.18 • Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [Broadcast Recording]
KPFA-FM Broadcast date 94.04.21 / 9:00am Morning Concert Program

unknown titles [:]

94.01.19 • Figure 8 (Rova x 4): Pipe Dreams

1. Head Count (for Albert Ayler and Pete Townshend) [3:37]
2. LG-[S-DB-J]TV (for Ray Charles and Steve Lacy) [15:31]
3. Tracers (for Anthony Braxton and Morton Feldman) [27:07]
4. Drmes (transcription of traditional Croatian song) [2:46]
5. Triceratops (for Iannis Xenakis and Roscoe Mitchell) [25:24]

• 94.01.00 (1) - "Glenn came to Hampshire College when I was a student there to teach a January-term class ...this must have been January of 1994. His residency at Hampshire was organized by my classmate, saxophonist David Gross (of the Tautology label)... The student ensemble also featured bassist George Langford, heard on Raphé Malik's Short Form. I attended the concert presented at the end of the course, which took place at the Northampton Center for the Arts. I remember Malik came down from Brattleboro to perform." [Peter Gershon (Signal to Noise) correspondence 03.03.23]
• 94.01.00 (2) - Figure 8 (Rova x 4): Tim Berne, Larry Ochs, John Raskin, Vinnie Golia, Steve Adams, Glenn Spearman, Bruce Ackley, Dave Barrett, John Zorn, Bob Ostertag, William Winant / Koncepts, Oakland, CA / 90 minute Audience Recording exists [anon. e-mail]

94.01.28 • Glenn Spearman Solo [Audience Recording]

announcement [0:20]
1. Ballad (Lyons) [10:00]
   announcement [0:30]
2. AB (Malik) [8:06]
   announcement [0:30]
3. What to Do About (Lyons) [5:26]

94.01.30 • Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.02.06 • Paul Plimley Trio [Audience Recording]

1. Plimley-Ellis Duo [12:56]
2. announcemet / Plimley-Ellis Duo [18:27]
   
3. unknown title (trio) [16:10]

• 94.02.08 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.20 no.2 February 1994 p.4]

94.02.15 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 94.03.05 - Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Raphé Malik (trumpet), James Routhier (guitar), Lisle Ellis (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) / Merchant's, Oakland, CA [Cadence Vol.20 no.4 April 1994 p.107]

94.05.02 • Marco Eneidi Quartet [Broadcast Recording]
Live Broadcsat, KPFA-FM

1. unknown titles [:]

[:]

94.05.03 • Glenn Spearman Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.05.06 • Glenn Spearman Group [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.05.15 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. Wedding Day [ : ]

94.05.00 (1) • Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Let It Go

• Various Artists: amalgam(e) 10 ans de Red Toucan {*}
  Red Toucan Records RT 9325 (2CD) 2004

1. Geronimo's Song (Spearman) [14:13]
2. July '87 (Spearman) [7:40]
3. Go Left Out Of Shantiville (Spearman) [6:14] {*}
4. Short Peace (Spearman) [4:49]
5. Almost Shaft (Spearman) [10:55]
6. Mixed Bag (Spearman) [14:59]
7. Jerry (Frank Wright) [14:13]
8. Open [ : ] * Unissued

94.05.00 (2) • Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds

1. Blare (Spearman) [9:20]
2. Field Before The Ram (Spearman) [12:26]
3. Graduation (Spearman) [10:03]
4. Lyons Roar (Spearman) [11:35]

94.05.21 • Glenn Spearman's Double Trio [Audience & Soundboard Recordings]

1. Straight Up, Straight Out [5:52]
2. Axe, Beautiful Acts [9:16]
3. Operation at the Level of the Phrase [14:00]
4. Double Image (Ochs) [12:45]
5. Celestial Source [4:38]
6. No! (Ochs) [8:41]
7. Painted with Lightning [1:51] (incomplete, cuts in)
8. Straight Up, Straight Out [2:33]

94.06.00 • Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds

1. Long Forward Pasts (Ellis / Plimley / Robinson / Spearman) [11:38]
2. Pipes, Spirits & Bronze (Spearman) [5:53]

94.06.03 • Lisle Ellis: What We Live Fo(u)r

1. Addressing The Ancestors (Ellis) [3:05]

• 94.06.20 - Jazz In Flight's Eric Dolphy Birthday Tribute, San Francisco, CA / Spearman present? "Kash Killion, James Newton, John Tchicai, Anthony Brown, others..." [Cadence Vol.20 no.8 August 1994 p.4 and p.109]

ERROR LISTING
94.06.30
94.07.03 • Various Artists (Rova Saxophone Quartet): Transparent Messenger

1. Grace

• 94.07.13 - Glenn Spearman Solo / Yoshi's, Nitespot, Oakland, CA [Cadence Vol.20 no.8 August 1994 p.110]

"A five city tour of Europe... Ben Lindgren was still the bass player, not Lisle Ellis. I have recordings and photos." —Eleanor Lindgren.

[Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives, and Glenn Spearman at the ROVA Saxophone Quartet Web Site both incorrectly list Lisle Ellis on bass for this tour.]

94.10.16 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.10.18 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.10.19 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.10.20 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

94.10.22 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 94.10.00 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio / Earshot World Jazz Festival, Seattle, WA [Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives]
• 94.10.27-11.13 - "the Up & Down Club, Cafe Du Nord, the Elbo Room and Prawn Song Records (the label owned by Primus bassist Les Claypool) have put together the San Francisco Afterdark Jazz Fest. From October 27 through November 13... Some of the artists who will be playing Afterdark: the Graham Connah Quintet..."
  [Michael Snyder "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 94.10.16, p.39]

94.10.29 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 94.11.08 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Rastacan Record's Dark Circle Lounge, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.20 no.12 December 1994 p.109]

94.11.15
94.11.16 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio: The Fields

1. Melts (Ochs) [15:11]
2. Fields before the Ram (Spearman) [12:39]
3. Hot (Spearman) [3:39]
4. Stepping Out (Spearman) [9:39]
5. Extrapolation of the inevitable (Spearman) [8:59]
6. Just There (Ochs) [5:13]
7. Sound Section (Spearman) [21:11]

94.12.00 (1) • [Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds]

1. The Skin She Bears [3:52]

94.12.00 (2) • Don Paul: Flowers Smell Like Gasoline

1. Blue Lightning [11:47]
2. The Skin She Bears [03:49]
3. Detroit/Crack [08:13]
4. Boy Breaking on the Old Manhood [03:07]

94.12.11 • Spearman Lindgren Duo [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 94.12.00 ("December") - Glenn Spearman "Clarinet Quartet" / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.1 January 1995 p. 109]
• 95.01.22 - Marco Eneidi Quartet: (no personnel info!) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.1 January 1995 p. 109]

95.00.00 (1) • President's Breakfast: Doo Process

1. [C] (Click Dark, E. Herrmann) [5:06]
2. Hard Time (Click Dark) [10:59]
3. Nefertiti (Wayne Shorter) [5:05]

95.00.00 (2) • President's Breakfast: III C

1. Love Supreme III (John Coltrane) [8:39]

At some point during 1995, Trio Hurrricane appears...

95.00.00 (3) • Trio Hurricane + 1 [Audience Recording]

• Various Artists (Trio Hurricane + 1): Wiretapper 6 Special Edition
  The WIRE Magazine Issue 200, October 2000 (2CD) England 2000]
[This disc includes pieces by The Fall; Flanger; Susumu Yokota; Ran Blake; Christian Marclay and Otomo Yoshihide; Sensational; General Magic; Pa Sonic; Jan Jelinek; Poire_Z; Him; David Grubbs; Angus Maclise; Glass Cage; Nurse With Wound; Faust; John Fahey; Nils Økland; Coil; Janek Schaefer; Current Ninety Three; Djivan Gasparyan; Peanut Butter Wolf; I-Sound; Bittonic & SI-{Cut}.DB; C-Schulze & Hajsch; Tom Recchion; Pluramon; Hermann Nitsch]

1. unknown title [26:52]
2. unknown title [17:42]
   announcement [0:22]
3. unknown title [7:23] (split track at 0:58)
   announcement [0:37]
4. unknown title [20:02]
5. unknown title [15:06]
   announcement [0:21]

• 95.03.19 - Glenn Spearman Quartet: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.3 March 1995 p.75]

• Marco Eneidi & Glenn Spearman & The Creative Music Orchestra
  In 1995 Marco returned to the Bay Area and, in collaboration with his long-time friend Glenn Spearman, began to rehearse a 20-plus piece orchestra. The band rehearsed for over 6 months and gave performances at the Berkeley Store Gallery [Beanbenders]. From the proceeds of these concerts they were able to record and issue Creative Music Orchestra on the Music & Arts label... in 1996. [Bay Area Improvisers Network, from "Marco Eneidi & The Big Band Concept, OUTSIDE Magazine #1 August 1998]

• 95.05.00 - [Marco Eneidi] - Glenn Spearman Orchestra: (no personnel details) / Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA / "highlights of the 2 week stay i had out in that area (along with ROVA, Chris Brown Solo, the Pan Asian Jazz Festival, Glenn Spearman Orchestra, Lisle Ellis Trio..." [Philip Gelb, from Reviews of Beanbender's Shows]
• 95.05.02 - Glenn Spearman Trio: (no personnel details) / 10:30pm, Dark Circle Lounge, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA [Dark Circle Lounge, from The History of Experimental Music in Northern California; Cadence Vol.21 no.6 June 1995 p.109]
• 95.05.07 - Glenn Spearman & Marco Eneidi: (no personnel details) / Berkeley Gallerie, Berkeley, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.5 May 1995 p.109]
• 95.05.14 - Glenn Spearman & Marco Eneidi: (no personnel details) / Berkeley Gallerie, Berkeley, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.5 May 1995 p.109]
• 95.05.21 - Glenn Spearman & Marco Eneidi: (no personnel details) / Berkeley Gallerie, Berkeley, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.5 May 1995 p.109]
• 95.05.24 - Glenn Spearman Duo with Spirit (drums) / double-bill with What We Live / Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA / "I remember that neither group played more than 40 minutes, and that the [originally billed] Glenn Spearman Trio was actually a duo..." [Dan Plonsey, from Reviews of Beanbender's Shows; Past Shows]
• 95.05.26 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.5 May 1995 p.108]
• 95.05.28 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.5 May 1995 p.108]
• 95.05.30 - Glenn Spearman & Marco Eneidi Creative Music Orchestra: (no personnel details) / Sets at 9:30/10:30pm, Dark Cirlce Lounge, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA [Dark Circle Lounge, from The History of Experimental Music in Northern California; Cadence Vol.21 no.6 June 1995 p.109]

95.06.00 (1) • [Glenn Spearman: Free Worlds]

1. Raga Shamwati (Traditional) [9:22]

95.06.00 (2) • Matthew Goodheart: Sonoluminescence

1. Invocation I
   - Homage to the Grandfather
   - Confluence
   (Spearman / Goodheart/ Ellis / Robinson) [12:22]
2. In the Water of Emanations (Goodheart / Robinson) [6:41]
3. Small Study (Goodheart / Ellis) [7:16]
4. Under Focus (Glenns Lens) (Spearman / Goodheart) [8:25]
5. Refraction Synthesis (Goodheart / Robinson) [9:48]
6. Condensations (Spearman / Goodheart/ Ellis / Robinson) [16:34]
7. Sound Into Light (Goodheart) [6:41]

95.06.06 • Marco Eneidi - Glenn Spearman: Creative Music Orchestra

American Jungle Suite
1. Hymn Of Creation (Eneidi) [3:54]
2. Trail of Tears (Eneidi) [3:57]
3. Ghost Dance (Eneidi) [13:34]
4. Naked Mirror (Cecil Taylor) [13:34]
5. Interlude (Eneidi) [7:14]
6. Student Studies (Spearman) [26:48]

95.06.25 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Video]

1. unknown titles [approx. 50:00]

• 95.07.01 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson, Lisle Ellis, Larry Ochs, Chris Brown, William Winant / Expo Theatre, Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Laurence Svirchev correspondence 03.12.18]
• 95.07.02 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / 10th Annual du Maurier International Jazz Festival, midnight (so actually 95.07.03) Studio 16, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives; Laurence Svirchev correspondence 03.12.18]
  * Festival Program has above group as: "Glenn Spearman Double Quartet"
• 95.08.02 - Glenn Spearman & Marco Eneidi's Creative Music Orchestra: "22-piece" (no other personnel details) / 8:00pm, Paradise Lounge and Transmission Theater, San Francisco, CA / "Earlier this month, a crash involving two fire trucks did significant damage to the avant-garde Mission District cafe and music venue Radio Valencia. Co-owner Don Alan promises that the place will be back in action by the fall. While awaiting repair work, Alan and friends have organized a benefit to wipe away some unpaid bills that have accumulated since the accident. More than 50 musicians and 10 bands will perform..." [Michael Snyder "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 95.07.30, p.31; CODA #265 January 1996 p.20]
• 95.09.17 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / Monterey Jazz Festival, "afternoon," Monterey Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA [Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives; Jesse Hamlin "Daily Datebook: Jazz Festival / Little Ways to Hear Big Acts in Monterey" The San Francisco Chronicle 95.09.15, Sec.C p.1]
• 95.10.00 - Spearman's Double Trio... was nominated by the San Francisco Weekly for a "Whammie Music Award" in 1995, and was commissioned for a composition and performance for the Move Dance Theatre (two performances at Laney College) [vague web resource]

95.10.26 • Cecil Taylor Orchestra [Audience Recording]

1. unknown title [86:45] (split track at 45:29)

95.11.08 • Surya: Stretching the Edge

1. Peace Prayer [2:24]
2. Panoramic [3:35]
3. Sun Love [4:34]
4. Kepler's Groove [7:10]
5. C.T. [4:29]
6. Turned Around [4:36]
7. Emerging Light [5:16]
8. Warm [5:45]

• 95.11.16-19 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / "Here Comes Everybody: The Music, Poetry and Art of John Cage" (conference and festival) / Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA / "concerts range from the Mills-associated ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny, Alvin Curran and Glenn Spearman, to vocal music of the 17th century and music of Darius Milhaud (who taught at Mills) and Igor Stravinksy." [Larry Kelp "On Q: Bay Area Dishes Up Busy Arts Season" The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) 95.09.03, Sec.Q p.12]

95.12.06 • Rova: John Coltrane's Ascension

1. Ascension (John Coltrane) [49:59]

• 95.12.13 - Glenn Spearman, Raphe Malik, Marco Eneidi, Jon Raskin, Chris Brown, Lisle Ellis, Don Robinson / Beanbender's, Berkeley, CA [Beanbender's Past Shows]
• 95-96.00.00 - "Spearman served on the board of directors of New Langton Arts in San Francisco from 1995 to 1996 and lectured at many colleges and conservatories in New England, Canada and California." [Bay Area Artists of the Diaspora: Glenn Spearman, the Mills College Archives]
• 96.00.00 - "In 1996, Berkeley's Small Press Distribution issued 'Musaphysics', a book that contains 30 years of Spearman's poetry and writings about music." [ibid]
• 96.01.09 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / Rastacan Record's Dark Circle Lounge, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.2 February 1996 p.20]

96.01.26 • Glenn Spearman Quintet (Double Trio Minus One) [Broadcast Recording]
WDR concert recordin

1. Suite: Stepping Out - There For John - Extrapolation Of The Inevitable [33:43]

2. Music For 3000 Years [5:07]

3. Fields Before The Rain [17:28]

4. Hot / GS band intro [5:21]

5. Sound Section [13:56]

[75:37]

Also circulating as "incomplete":

 radio announcement

1. unknown title [15:01] (incomplete)

• 96.02.17 - Full Metal Revolutionary Music Ensemble: possible Spearman date onthe east coast after January European tour (no personnel details) / Boston, MA [Cadence Vol.22 no.4 April 1996 p.24]
• 96.03.02 - Glenn Spearman: (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA / [Cadence Vol.22 no.4 April 1996 p.124]
• 96.03.11 - Marco Eneidi Quartet: Spearman? (no personnel details) / Coffee Head, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.4 April 1996 p.124]
• 96.00.00 - "In the Spring of 1996 he collaborated with Bay Area filmmaker Lynn Kirby on a video-music performance piece." [Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide]
• 96.05.00
  Mondays (in May, specifically, but beyond as noted) Coffee Head, San Francisco, CA
  Tuesdays: Dark Circle Lounge
  Wednesdays: Beanbenders
  Thursdays: Stork Club
  Saturdays: Radio Valencia
  [Cadence Vol.22 no.6 June 1996 p.123]
• 96.06.22 - Marco Eneidi: Spearman? (no personnel details) / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.7 July 1996 p.124]
• 96.06.26 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / double-bill with Min Xio-Fen / Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA [Dan Plonsey, from Reviews of Beanbender's Shows]
• 96.06.29 - Surya with Glenn Spearman / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.7 July 1996 p.124]

96.07.27 • Raphé Malik: The Short Form

1. Invocation: Spiel City [8:00]
2. Ray (thine own) [10:00]
3. Civilization After Coltrane [13:03]
4. Big G [7:36]
5. Hightail [4:57]
6. Gem Stone [7:16]
7. Grab Bag of Crabs on the Bayou [7:55]

96.08.15 • William Hooker: Mindfulness

• Various Artists: The Texaco New York Jazz Festival Radio Series Live at The Knitting Factory, Show 4
  A World of Energy [a radio sampler in paper sleeves w/ no select #] (6CD) 1998
  [Disc 4 contains an excerpt of 5:57, which fades in, and fades out.]

1. Solemn Breath: Knowledge / In This Earth - Body [20:52]
2. Flow - RT. 1 [Awake] [9:54]
3. Principles of Duality [1:16]
4. Living Organs - Parallel Planes [20:00]
5. Archetypal Space [5:19]

96.09.07
96.09.14
96.09.21
96.09.28 • Marco ENEIDI: Marco ENEIDI & The American Jungle Orchestra

1. Landscapes 1 + 11 (Eneidi) [21:36
2. Prairie Sunrise (Eneidi) [3:00]
3. Last Flight of the Nez Perce (Walowa) (Eneidi) [10:00]
4. R.A.G.S. (Raskin / Ackley / Greenleaf / Spearman) [3:40]
5. Lakota (lower) (Eneidi) [7:14]
6. Going to Meet the Man (Eneidi) [13:00]

96.10.00 • Surya: Up

1. Up (Part 1) [22:22]
2. Up (Part 2) [24:00]

• 96.11.11 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / 8 and 10 p.m., Yoshi's Nitespot, 6030 Claremont, Oakland, CA [San Francisco Weekly 96.11.06]

97.01.25 • Marco Eneidi / Glenn Spearman / William Parker / Jackson Krall: Live at Radio Valencia

Introduction [0:40]
1. False Alarm (collective) [32:51]
2. The Painter and the Poet (Parker) [10:48]
3. Silent Scream (Cecil Taylor) [21:36]

• 97.01.26 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: Elliot Levine (tenor sax), William Parker (tuba), Jackson Krall (drums), others... Spearman present ??? / Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA / "Eneidi's Orchestra played one long piece. The group consisted of about seven saxes and clarinets, a chorus of five or six people, perhaps five bass players, two drummers, and [William] Parker on tuba. The music consisted of about ten musical fragments for the orchestra, and perhaps as many textural fragments for the chorus. Simple as these were, Eneidi wove them together with dexterity, keeping things moving, making contrasts, cueing soloists" [Dan Plonsey, from Reviews of Beanbender's Shows]
• 97.02.12 - Glenn Spearman, Larry Ochs, Donald Robinson / Radio Valencia Cafe, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.23 no. 3 March 2 February 1997, p.124]
• 97.03.22 - Matthew Goodheart Trio: Glenn Spearman, Donald Robinson / Venue 9, SanFrancisco, CA [Cadence Vol.23 no. 3 March 2 February 1997, p.123]
• 97.05.18 - ROVA +4: Steve Adams (alto and baritone sax, sopranino), Bruce Ackley (tenor and soprano sax), John Raskin (alto and baritone sax, sopranino), Larry Ochs (tenor sax, sopranino), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Vinny Golia (baritone, bass and soptano sax), Andy Laster (baritone and alto sax) / Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada / "...three compositions by Larry Ochs:" Triceratops; Initials; unknown title [Laurence Svirchev correspondence 03.12.18; CODA #275, September/October1997 p.10; Cadence Vol. 23 no. 7, p.28]

97.05.21
97.05.22 • The Glenn Spearman / John Heward Group: th

• Various Artists: CIMPosium - Volume 4 {*}
  CIMP #704

1. Irreversible Blues (Spearman) [10:42]
2. Gathering the Ancestors (Heward) [7:51]
3. 3 for John (Spearman) [8:59]
4. Summoning (Spearman / Heward) [5:04]
5. Arista Africanapata (Spearman) [9:30]
6. Moment in Time (Duval) [10:01]
7. Stone Soup (Heward) [6:17] {*} (CIMP #704 has an excerpt at 3:24)
8. Initiation (Spearman) [5:39]
9. The Natural Thing (Spearman / Heward / Cauley / Prentice / Duval) [7:17]

97.05.28 • Various Artists (Trio ): Vision One - Vision Festival 1997 Compiled

• Various Artists: Inside Out in the Open {2}
  Asymmetric Pictures (BETA SP) 2001 / 60:00 Color Film

1. Hurricane (collective) [6:30] {1}
2. (film excerpt not identified) [ : ] {2}

• 97.06.00 - Glenn Spearman Trio: Matthew Goodheart, ? / Berkeley Arts Festival [Matthew Goodheart Resume]

97.06.08 • Glenn Spearman: Blues For Falasha

1. The Old Book [2:14]
2. Rituals [5:26]
3. Water And Dirt [10:01]
4. Sounds [28:13]

97.07.26 • Trio Hurricane: Live at Fire in the Valley

1. Initiation (Spearman) [12:50]
2. Blues for John and Frank (Spearman) [10:27]
3. Tones for William (Spearman) [11:41]
4. N.Y.N.Y. (Spearman) [11:10]
5. The Natural (Spearman / Parker / Murphy) [5:08]

• 97.09.12 - Susie Ibarra Trio: Chris Brown (piano), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax) / 1st Set Ibarra Solo; 2nd Set Trio / Mills Concert Series, 8:00pm, Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA [Maitland Zane "Beating A Drum for Mills Music" The San Francisco Chronicle 97.09.05, p.5]
• 97.10.00 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, CA [Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives]
• 97.11.02 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Boston, MA [Cadence Vol. 23 no. 10 October, 1997, p.125]
• 97.11.03 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Philadelphia, PA [ibid]
• 97.11.05 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / New York City [ibid]
• 97.11.06 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Brattleboro, VT [ibid]
• 97.11.07 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Bennington College, Bennington, VT [ibid]
• 97.11.08 - Raphe Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Unitarian Meeting House, Amherst, MA [ibid]
• 97.11.18 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra (& Tom Brown: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]
• 97.11.25 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 97.12.02 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 97.12.09 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 97.12.23 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [ibid]

98.00.00 (1) • Urna: Crossroads

1. tracks?

• 98.00.00 (2) - "Glenn also performed as part of the Raphe Malik Quintet in Albany sometime in early 1998..." [Peter Gershon (Signal to Noise) correspondence 03.03.23]
• 98.01.24 - Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Glenn Spearman (sax), George Cremaschi (bass), Donald Robinson (drums), ????????? (guitar) and special guest Marco Eneidi (sax) / "the premiere of" The Sweat Shop / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History; Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Music Log; Venue listed as "Inside Out" in Cadence Vol. 24 no. 2 February '98 p.140]
• 98.01.31 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Sets at 7:30 & 9:00 / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 98.02.00 - "The last time I heard from him Xmas '97 when he wrote about doing a quartet with Leo Smith in February '98 as well as G-Force opening a San Francisco club. The next thing I heard was from Shantee, his wife, of his passing after I'd sent some tapes of his favorite FRANK WRIGHT..." "Roy Morris long-hand correspondence, June 19, 2006
• 98.02.07 - Matthew Goodheart Trio + Leo Smith: Glenn Spearman, Donald Robinson / Inside Out, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol. 24 no. 2 February '98 p.140]

98.02.18 • Glenn Spearman and Dennis Warren: Duet / Live at the Green Street Grill

1. improvisation [30:37]
2. improvisation [9:57]

• 98.02.23-03.13 - "Mills College in Oakland presents Improvised Music Workshops" with Glenn Spearman [Cadence Vol. 24 no. 2 February '98 p.140]
• 98.02.25 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]
• 98.02.26 - Marco Eneidi / Glenn Spearman Sextet: (no personnel details) / 10:30pm, The Stork Club, Oakland, CA / "double-sax free-jazz attack" [ibid]
• 98.03.09 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ibid; Cadence Vol. 24 no. 4, April '98 p.140]
• 98.03.16 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 98.03.23 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra featuring John Lindberg and Bertram Turetzky in a Tribute to David Izenzon: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 98.03.30 (1) - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra with Special Guest Anthony Brown: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 98.03.30 (2) ??? - Marco Eneidi's Small Ensemble: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
• 98.04.19 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra present William Butler Yeats' "Deirdre," directed by Jessica Loos: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Beanbender's, Berkeley, CA [ibid; Cadence Vol. 24 no. 4, April '98 p.140]
• 98.05.00 - Myles Boisen Guitar Trio: Glenn Spearman (tenor), Marco Eneidi (alto) / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol. 24 no. 6, June '98 p.2]
• 98.05.09 - Glenn Spearman Trio: Adam Lane (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA / "Playing the music of Cecil Taylor [ibid]

98.05.25 • Raphe Malik Quartet: Companions

1. Lyon's Jump [13:24]
2. Emblematic [10:38]
3. Health Food [9:53]
4. Bend [7:19]

• 98.05.30 - Jazz Summit: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Raphe Malik (trumpet), John Heward (drums), David Prentice (violin), Bill Grove (clarinet), Bob Fenton (piano), Mark Hundevad (drums), "among others" / 9:00pm, Barcode, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ["The List: A critical guide to what's happening" The Globe and Mail 98.05.30; Geoff Chapman Toronto Star 98.05.28, Sec.H p.7]
• 98.06.13 - poet/performer Don Paul is accompanied by saxophonist Glenn Spearman / "Son of the Beach Beat poet Jack Micheline died rather unceremoniously on a BART train earlier this year, but his work, contained in 20-odd volumes of poetry, lives on at the North Beach Festival's poetry stage, which makes reference to his death-in-transit with the theme "The Beat Rolls On." Like every other street fair in the city, the North Beach Festival will be jammed with food booths and art of questionable merit, but the poetry stage, the only one of its kind among all the city's fairs, offers a little local color with an homage to the North Beach beat scene. Jazz poet Ruth Weiss teams up with the Marcus Shelby Trio, and poet/performer Don Paul is accompanied by saxophonist Glenn Spearman; chapbooks and other poetry paraphernalia will be sold. The fair's other distinguishing characteristics include "L'Infiorata," a block-long re-creation of famous art, done in flower petals by two teams of Italian artists, and the blessing of the animals by Franciscan monks from the Shrine of St. Francis. The festival begins at 10 a.m. (also Sunday) on the 1200-1500 blocks of Grant, the 500 block of Green, the 1500 block of Stockton, and in Washington Square Park, San Francisco, CA. Admission is free." [San Francisco Weekly 96.08.10]
• 98.06.25 - John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Peter Hinds (percussion) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds' correspondence 04.01.06]
• 98.07.02 - Matthew Goodheart Trio plus One: Glenn Spearman, Wadada Leo Smith, Donald Robinson / Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA / tape exists, about 60min. [Ras Moshe correspondence 04.01.16]
• 98.07.06 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]
• 98.07.13 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present ??? / Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]
• 98.07.16 - John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Kash Killion (cello) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds' correspondence 04.01.06]

98.07.20
98.07.21 • Glenn Spearman & Dominic Duval: Working With the Elements

1. Step Up [9:32]
2. Series Series [12:19]
3. Augh Oh [11:11]
4. Legato [9:10]
5. Sass Bolo [5:47]
6. Zantackin Down [5:17]
7. Call Separation [5:32]
8. Sitting In [4:29]
9. Senortolo - Back By the Bay [3:35]

98.07.26 • Glenn Spearman: First and Last

1. Intertextural Reference (Goodheart) [21:10]
2. Under the Incalculable Sky, Listless, Diseased with Stars (Bakr / Goodheart / Spearman) [21:58]

Glenn Spearman (tenor sax)
Matthew Goodheart (piano)
Rashid Bakr (drums)

{Primary Source: MTE015}

First and Last at the Eremite website.

• 98.08.15 - Marco Eneidi's Mystery Ensemble: (no personnel details) / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]

• 98.10.07 - "I asked him, 'Are you dying?' He said, 'No.'"
  —Glenn Spearman's wife, Shantee, on the night before his death
  [Jack Foley, from "Glenn Spearman, The Musa-Physics: Myth - Science - Poetics, Ascension Publication," The Alsop Review]
  
  

• 98.10.08 - "A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Glenn Spearman, a saxophonist and composer who for the past decade was a leader of the Bay Area improvised-music scene. Mr. Spearman died of colon cancer Thursday at his home in Berkeley at the age of 51.
  
  A big man with a big heart and a big sound on the tenor sax, Mr. Spearman was always seeking ways of creating opportunities for local musicians. He was an enthusiastic instructor as well as a performer and recording artist.
  
  Mr. Spearman was born in New York City to a family saturated in music, thanks mainly to his father, an opera singer. At age 11, he and his mother moved to Concord, where he later attended Mount Diablo High School. An All-Northern California football player, he enrolled at Colorado State University on scholarship, later transferring to San Jose State University, where he began playing saxophone. An acolyte of pioneering free-jazz players such as Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor, Mr. Spearman performed at several Bay Area venues in the late '60s and early '70s, including the Native Son in Berkeley and Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium. After living and working in Europe for a few years, he returned to the United States in 1978 but continued to perform frequently in Europe. In 1983, he was hired by Taylor and performed with the eminent pianist for a year. After that, work came more frequently. In 1990, he received a New England Federation for the Arts Meet the Composer grant, the first of several stipends. That year, he also formed the Glenn Spearman Double Trio, which would perform in Europe, Canada and the United States and record three CDs that have been released and a fourth one that is due out. In 1993, when the local improvised-music scene—an alternative to mainstream jazz—was blossoming, Mr. Spearman joined the faculty of Oakland's Mills College to teach creative music tradition, saxophone and improvisation. In 1995, he became a visiting professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and, in 1996, he was selected as artist-in-residence at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts. In the past few years, he has released several CDs under his leadership, and appeared as a sideman on others. In 1996, he and alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi began leading a large ensemble of local musicians called the Creative Music Orchestra and released a CD by that name last year. A collection of Mr. Spearman's poems and philosophy, Musaphysics, was published last year by Small Press Distribution of Berkeley.
  
  Mr. Spearman is survived by his wife, Shantee Baker Spearman of Berkeley; his mother, Marianne Ellis of Oakland; his father, Rawn Spearman of Nashua, N.H.; and four children: Rose Steiger of Rotterdam, Holland; Ahmad and Jihan of Oakland; and Angelica of Berkeley. He also cared for stepchildren Jessica and Jasper Kingeter of Berkeley. A memorial service at Harris Funeral Home, 1331 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Visitation at the Funeral Home is from 3 to 6 p.m. today, with a quiet hour from 6 to 7 p.m. A benefit concert/jam session for Mr. Spearman's family will be held November 21 at the Berkeley Store Gallery, 2295 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.
  —David Rubien / Obituaries The San Francisco Chronicle 98.10.10, Sec.A p.21
  
  

• 98.10.16

• 98.11.21 - "Paying Tribute to Saxophonist
  While Glenn Spearman's death of colon cancer last month at age 51 was a huge loss to the Bay Area's improvised-music community, the saxophonist's ethos lives on in many ways—in the audience he helped develop, in the venues that sprang up to serve the audience and, most importantly, in the musicians that carry on the tradition he advanced.
  
  Dozens of these artists will participate in a benefit tribute to Spearman at Berkeley's Beanbender's on Saturday, with the proceeds going to his family. Spearman was a firebrand on the sax, best known for his unfettered, hurricane-like blowing, a signature of the free-jazz tradition he was schooled in. His gift involved wrapping his improvisational explosions in suite-like structures and using simple, beautiful melodies to ignite a musical conflagration. This balance of improvisation and composition came to fruition in the Glenn Spearman Double Trio, a union of two bands—Spearman's own Trio, and Room, an avant-garde classical outfit featuring electronics, saxophone and percussion. Room's electronics whiz Chris Brown, who plays acoustic piano in the Double Trio and co-directs the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, explains: ‘Room was very into composed structures. Glenn's idea was you had a series of notes—it could be very simple—and you took off from there. It was totally exhilarating. ...A kind of ecstatic dialogue would take place, where everybody was sort of speaking in tongues, playing more with their bodies than anything else.’
  
  When the Double Trio performs at the benefit Saturday, Spearman's slot will be taken by his brilliant alto-sax-playing colleague Marco Eneidi. The second saxophonist, Larry Ochs, will be out of town, so someone yet to be named will attempt to fill his shoes. The rest of the bill consists of a constellation of bands Spearman either led or played with: an expanded ROVA saxophone lineup, G- Force (featuring Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, James Routhier and Donald Robinson), Matthew Goodheart, Positive Knowledge, J.D. Parran, Vinny Golia, Ben Lindgren, poet Jack Foley, Room's percussion ace Willie Winant, Kash Killion and others. Closing the show will be the American Jungle Orchestra, a 30-strong blend of professionals and students taught by Spearman and Eneidi.
  
  All present will recall Spearman as someone who pushed them deeper into their music. ‘We propelled each other,’ says Eneidi of his late friend. ‘We really locked up. I never had that with anybody else.’"
  [David Rubien "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 98.11.15, p.49]
  
  
• "A Tribute Concert for Glenn Spearman... Featuring freinds and collaborators performing the music and writings of Glenn Spearman: [in additon to thoise listed above] Spirit, Musa Physics, Oluyemi Thomas, Don Paul, Ijeoma Thomas, Jasper Baker, and Ahmad Spearman." [Craig Matsumoto: The Wedge Page, Creative Music: Recent History]
  
  

• 99.03.05
  99.03.06 - Glenn Spearman Memorial Concert with Raphe Malik, William Parker, and others / Unitarian Meetinghouse, Amherst, MA [Bob Blumenthal "Arts & Film" The Boston Globe, 99.03.05]

• 99.08.21 - A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Marianne Ellis, a prominent educator in the East Bay for 33 years, who died in her sleep on August 21 at her Oakland home. She was 74.
  
  Described as a teacher, mentor, administrator and friend, Mrs. Ellis graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she did her undergraduate work, and from Holy Names College, where she received a master's degree in English. Mrs. Ellis served as an administrator for 21 years in the Oakland Unified School District. She also taught English and was the vice principal at Lowell Junior High and Claremont Junior High for 12 years. After that, she became the project director for the Reading and Writing Lab at Oakland High School. The lab blossomed under Mrs. Ellis' direction and served 300 students a year. During her tenure, Mrs. Ellis pioneered a successful educational method that involved peer tutoring. In 1985, Mrs. Ellis joined the East Bay Conservation Corps. Along with Barbara Sergeant and director Joanna Lennon, Mrs. Ellis created the East Bay Conservation Corps Learning Center, which helps 18-to-24-year-olds complete their high school educations. At the corps, she helped start numerous programs, including Project YES (Youth Engaged in Service), a kindergarten-through-12th-grade learning partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, and the Summer of Service Program, where Mrs. Ellis used her peer tutoring methods to teach second-graders how to read and write. Mrs. Ellis left the East Bay Conservation Corps last year and continued on in an advisory capacity until her death.
  
  Her son, tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman, died in October from colon cancer. Mrs. Ellis is survived by her two sisters, Gertrude Davis of Downey and Ursula Sabel of Pleasant Hill; and by four grandchildren. The memorial service will be held 1:30 p.m. at the Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club, 1650 Mountain Blvd. in Oakland. Contributions may be made to the Marianne Ellis Scholarship Fund, c/o Joanna Lennon, East Bay Conservation Corps, 1021 Third St., Oakland, CA 94607.
  [Obituaries The San Francisco Chronicle 99.08.28, Sec.A p.23]
  
  

• 05.03.27 - Orkestrova: Rova Saxophone Quartet + "guitarists Nels Cline and Fred Frith and several other musicians." / Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA / "...Orkestrova performing Coltrane's 1965 free-jazz big-band opus Ascension on the piece's 40th anniversary. ...a differently enhanced Rova, along with Oakland saxophonist Glenn Spearman, performed Ascension first 10 years ago, at which time Spearman called the composition ‘the Beethoven's Fifth of jazz.’" [David Rubien "Sunday Datebook" The San Francisco Chronicle 05.03.06]

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Vision Fest '97

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