The Glenn Spearman Sessionography (February 14, 1947 - October 8, 1998) A work in progress by Rick Lopez. Document begun September 26, 2000 UPDATES January 22, 2013 ©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
• 80.05.14 / Raphe Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording] NYC
• 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)
• 88.04.17 / Bill Dixon Ensemble ("Sound Unity Orchestra") [Audience Recording] NYC
• 89.08.02 / 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 / 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
• 91.04.10 / Cecil Taylor's Burning Poles Ensemble [Audience Recording] Boston
• 91.05.09-11 / Cecil Taylor and Rada: Live in New York [Broadcast Video; Audience Audio & Video Recordings] 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 Recording] 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 Recording] San Francisco
• 93.06.12 / Figure Eight [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 93.06.27 / Lisle Ellis Trio and Septet [Audience Video Recording] 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 Recording] 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: October 8, 1993 (SFSU Poetry Center)
  • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]
• 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 Recording] San Francisco
• 93.12.08 / Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [Audience Recording] Münich
• 94.00.00 / Glenn Spearman Quartet [Audience Recording] Oakland
• 94.01.00 (2) / Figure 8 (Rova x 4) [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) *Incorrect citation
• 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
• 95.01.00 / 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 Recording] San Francisco
• 95.10.26 / Cecil Taylor & The Glenn Spearman 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 & John Heward Group: th (CIMP) + 97.05.22
  • Various Artists: CIMPosium - Volume 4
• 97.05.22 / The Glenn Spearman & 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)
• 98.07.02 / Matthew Goodheart Trio + One [Audience Recording] San Francisco
• 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."
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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.)
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the Mystery Project CD
  
  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 [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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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."
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the Mystery Project CD
  
  
• 78.00.00 - "In regards to the Glenn Spearman discography: There is a tenor sax player identified as 'Glenn Spears' on Cha Cha Shaw's second 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 [55:00]

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

1. unknown title [15:00]

• 79.09.21 - Raphé Malik Quartet: Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (reeds), Parker (bass), John Fuller aka Kuwama (drums, percussion) / Environ, New York City [Arts and Leisure Guide New York Times September 16, 1979, p.D37; New York Magazine September 24, 1979 p.30]

79.10.10 • Raphé Malik Quartet [Audience Recording]

 1st Set:

1. SUITE: Life Without Lloyd Part 1 [40:49]

2. Part 2 [11:30]

3. Part 3 [29:07]

4. Part 4 [06:57]

• 79.11.02 - Raphé 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, p.373]
• 79.11.11 - Raphé Malik Quartet: Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Parker (bass), Kuwama (drums, percussion) / Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, Austria [Bjorn Dirlack 05.08.01; Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, The 20th Anniversary Album]

80.05.14 • Raphe Malik Quartet [Broadcast Recording]
WKCR-FM Broadcast, September 8, 2010

1. unknown titles [ : ]

• 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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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), Raphé 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), Raphé 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 • The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit [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, André Martinez / Lush Life, NYC [ibid]
• 82.04.04 - The Cecil Taylor Expanded Unit: (no personnel details) similar to above dates, plus André 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 September '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..." [André 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 Expanded Unit: (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]

[59:42]

• 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, Glenn Spearman, Martinez / Lush Life, NYC
  "Lester Bowie sat in on one of the gigs." —André 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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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), Raphé Malik (trumpet), Glenn Spearman (tenor saxophone), Karen Borca (bassoon), Paul Murphy (percussion) / 10:00pm, 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]
• 88.02.07 - Lynn Kirby: Films & Installations, including the screening of July 25th; Ode to Ms. Bradix and Ms. Brooks Multi-media installation "With the generous help of: Paula Alexander, Leslie Alperin, Laurie Bernard, Kimberely Disney, Barney Haynes, Karen Holmes, Kimberely Jennings, Toney Merritt, Stephen Rogers, Glenn Spearman, Dawn Yamada / The Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA [www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscocine88sanfrich/sanfranciscocine88sanfrich_djvu.txt]
• 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 (with only Glenn Spearman mentioned) scheduled for 11:30pm 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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the Mystery Project CD

88.04.17 • Bill Dixon Ensemble ("Sound Unity Orchestra") [Audience Recording]

1. Sisyphus [:]

• 88.06.13-14 - Don Paul (poetry), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax) / North Beach Festival, San Francisco, CA
  "...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.' ...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." ["Night + Day," San Francisco Weekly, June 10, 1988]
• 88.06.25 - Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Peter Hinds (percussion) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds 04.01.06]
  Video excerpt [4:42]
  
  
  
  
• 88.07.02 - Hinds Brothers: Paul Murphy (drums), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor sax), Kash Killion (cello), Peter Hinds (video recording) / LPC Studios, Oakland, CA [www.youtube.com/embed/Rk1F3GEQ96U]
  
  Video excerpt [3:10]
  
  
  
  
• 88.07.16 - Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Kash Killion (cello) / Oakland, CA [Peter Hinds 04.01.06]
  
  Video excerpt [4:17]
  
  
  
  
• 88.07.23 - Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), John Hinds (tenor & soprano sax, percussion), Paul Murphy (drums), Kash Killion (cello) / Oakland, CA [www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftEY_0Im7Q]
  
  Video excerpt [5:09]
  
  
  
  Video excerpt [6:29]
  
  
  
  
• 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 03.02.17 and 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 Annual 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 Annual Concord Jazz Festival, 8:00-11:00pm, 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 US 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]
  * 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 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 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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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 • 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]
  "Lisle Ellis programmed the États Soniques Series, 1990-91 at the Bar G-Sharp and thereafter at the Club Continental."
  [www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/]
• 91.02-03.00 "...early February/March" - Glenn Spearman & Peter Valsamis, workshop on New Directions in Jazz and Drumming. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [home.comcast.net/(tilde)petervalsamis/petervalsamis/resume.html]

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: Raphé 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 - "Raphé 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, Raphé 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: Raphé Malik, Glenn Spearman / Montreal, Quebec, Canada

91.04.10 • Cecil Taylor's Burning Poles Ensemble [Audience Recording]

1. Burning Poles [:]

• 91.04.24
  91.04.25
  91.04.26 - "Glenn also recorded at Mapleshade between April 24 and 26, 1991 with a quartet including Raphé, William Parker, and Paul Murphy. It was really hot! After William and Paul left, Glenn and Raphé 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).
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the Mystery Project CD

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

1. unknown titles [:]

• 91.06.09 - Raphé Malik Quintet: Malik (trumpet, Compostions), Brian King Nelson (c-melody sax), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Larry Roland (bass), Dennis Warren (drums) / Ulrichsburg, Austria [Program for a performance at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music on April 10, 1991; www.jazzatelier.at/va/x7304.htm]

91.06.12 • Raphé Malik 5tet: 21st Century Texts

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

1. AB dedicated to A.B. Spellman [15:26]

2. CC dedicated to Duke Ellington [6:50]

3. BLUE 2 dedicated to Miles Davis [5:37]

4. TALK dedicated to Miles Davis [14:51]

5. COMPANIONS TOO dedicated to Jimmy Lyons [9:06]

6. IT'S QUIET TIME dedicated to Thelonius Monk [8:07]

7. EXTENSIONS [14:02]

• 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< /li>
• 91.07.00 - Glenn Spearman: (Likely with the Raphé Malik Quintet) / Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Confederation Park, Ottawa, Alberta, Canada [Program for a performance at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music on April 10, 1991.]

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]

 Audience Recording:

1. unknown title [9:08] (incomplete, cuts in)

2. unknown title [15:28]

3. Inside & Out [9:32]

[34:25]

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
  FMRJE (no catalogue #) (CD) 2004

1. Passport to Freedom [18:37]

2. Jet Stream [5:29]

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]

[92:34]

• 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]

[59:13]

• 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."
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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 [16:26] (continuous piece)

92.07.18 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. Horus [:]

2. SD III [:]

3. Thinking of Frank [:]

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.
  —Kevin Whitehead's bio of Glenn, from the 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]

• 92.08.26 - Glenn Spearman Trio: Spearman (tenor sax, percussion), Chris Brown (digital piano), Spirit (drums, percussion) / Father Boeddeker Park, The Tenderloin, San Francisco [Dave Anderson 12.02.23]

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]

[74:22]

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 Raphé 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]

[72:12]

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 Recording]

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]

 Set 1:

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)

 

 Set 2:

1. Painless (Ochs) [07:42]

2. Celestial Source (Spearman) [06:52]

3. Asaph (Spearman) [02:25]

[60:20]

• 93.05.24 - Glenn Spearman Trio, Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [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 Recording]

1. unknown titles [50:00]

93.06.12 • Figure Eight [Audience Recording]

1. unknown titles [90:00]

93.06.27 • Lisle Ellis Trio + Septet [Audience Video Recording]

 1st Set: (Trio)

1. unknown title [27:18]

2. unknown title; Ellis announcement [12:47]

[40:05]

 

 2nd Set: (Se

1. unknown title [8:05]

2. Ground; Ellis announcement [13:46] (incomplete, fades in)

3. Recall [13:05]

4. unknown title [6:50]

5. Lacuna [7:07]

[48:56]

• 93.07.08 - President's Breakfast; Dred Scott (keyboards, 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..." [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 (Raphé 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 Raphé 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 Recording]

1. unknown titles [:]

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

 soundcheck, intro [4:05]

1. Headcount [4:05]

2. Initials [19:10]

 applause... announcement Ackley [1:40]

3. Triceratops [26:40] (split track at 17:20)

4. unknown title [2:35]

 applause... announcement Ackley [4:40]

5. Tracers [21:25]

• 93.09.00 - "I'm making a tape for 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
  "...But 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: October 8, 1993

• Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Soundboard Recording]

1. Bedouin Hornbook [55:00]

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" [:]

• From the defunct Opprobrium magazine:
  John Tchicai: ...I organized a series of concerts in 1993 at a small theater in San Francisco's North Beach district. We did four weekends there with a different line-up of musicians on each date.
  Oppro: I saw one of those afternoon shows when you played with Glenn Spearman and Lisle Ellis—that was really good.
  JT: Oh yeah? I liked that one too. I also put on one show at the old Koncepts Kultural Gallery location. We played there as the Coyote Ensemble. Let's see, what else...?
  [John Tchicai Interview by Mike Trouchon at dcn.davis.ca.us/˜jomnamo/rub_tchicai/page_inter.html]

• 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]

[60:03]

93.11.10 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Smokehouse

1. Axe, Beautiful Acts—In-take (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 Recording]

1. unknown titles [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)

[49:21]

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

unknown titles [90:00]

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) 03.03.23

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]

[24:56]

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]

[47:34]

• 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 page 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]
• 94.10.27 - Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), James Routhier (guitar), Lisle Ellis (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) / New Langton Arts, San Francisco Alternative Jazz Festival, San Francisco, CA [Tony Brooke's A&R Report]
  This is the only reference I've found for this date, and it is listed with question marks as to the group name. This is probably a mixup with 94.10.29.

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 [3:49]

3. Detroit/Crack [8:13]

4. Boy Breaking on the Old Manhood [3:07]

94.12.11 • Spearman–Lindgren Duo [Soundboard Recording]

1. unknown titles [:]

• 94.12.00 ("December") - Glenn Spearman "Clarinet Quartet" ...personnel? / 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]
• 95.01.00 - Cecil Taylor Unit (sessions noted from 01.23 to 01.29) "...rehearsed a large ensemble that included ROVA, William Winant, Peter Apfelbaum, and others..." Was Spearman present? / San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.3 March 1995 p.75]
• 95.02.02 - Dan Plonsey's Disaster Opera Theatre for saxophones and puppets: (no personnel details) Spearman? / Giorgio's Gallery, Berkeley, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.3 March 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...

95.01.00 • 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]

 Audience Recording:

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]

[90:21]

• 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: Spearman (tenor sax, piano), Marco Eneidi (alto sax), Donald Robinson (drums) / 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; Dave Anderson 12.02.23]
• 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 (tenor sax, piano) 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 (Spearman/Goodheart/Ellis/Robinson) [12:22]

 —Homage to the Grandfather

 —Confluence

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]

• 95.06.21 - Surya: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Larry Giustino (electric guitar), George Cremaschi (bass), Spirit (drums, percussion) / "...various bands playing on various corners in Downtown San Francisco." / Making Waves Music Festival, "...corner of Market Street and Montgomery Street.", San Francisco, CA [Dave Anderson 12.02.23]

95.06.25 • Glenn Spearman Double Trio [Audience Video Recording]

1. unknown titles [50:00]

• 95.06.26 - Jazz In Flight's Eric Dolphy Birthday Tribute... Was Spearman present? / SanFrancisco, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.6 June 1995 p.109]
• 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 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 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) / "Also appearing: Trance Mission, Barbara Manning & S.F. Seals, Virginia Dare, Blue Room Boys, Graham Connah, and Lisle Ellis" —"Radio Days," San Francisco Weekly July 26, 1995 / 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 & The Glenn Spearman 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]

• From the defunct Opprobrium magazine:
  Oppro: Do you care to mention the Ascension tribute debacle?
  JT: Well, John Raskin from the ROVA Saxophone Quartet got hold of me and told me about the idea for the tribute and mentioned that Glenn Spearman was going to play the part of Coltrane. I said I thought that was a little strange seeing as how Spearman wasn't part of the original session and was only a kid at the time we did the recording. I guess ROVA thought about that for a bit and figured it might be more appropriate for me to play Coltrane's part. So we made preparations to play the piece and Raskin sent me some of Coltrane's charts from the session. He also sent me charts for Coltrane's "Welcome Tune." As the date of the tribute came closer, I mentioned that it would be nice to have a couple of rehearsals to see if we could all work the piece out together and they didn't think that was such a good idea. They thought they didn't have time or something. So that was one stumbling block, and then the idea of recording the tribute, to be released on CD, came up. This was something that wasn't mentioned in the beginning, so I asked for some more money—I didn't ask for much more, just a little bit. Then Raskin said he'd have to ask Black Saint if this would be okay and then he later said it wouldn't be possible for me to get more money. So I said I couldn't participate in the tribute and they went ahead and did it without me.
  [John Tchicai Interview by Mike Trouchon at dcn.davis.ca.us/(tilde)jomnamo/rub_tchicai/page_inter.html]

95.12.06 • Rova: John Coltrane's Ascension

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

Fred Jung: Coltrane is a god in my house and so I was extremely skeptical. That must have been the prevailing sentiment, did that concern you?
Bruce Ackley: No, and the reason is that I don't think there are that many people that really know that record well enough or that piece well enough to have a clear understanding, and if they do, they wouldn't have any problem with ROVA doing it. But I think that I [felt] like my relationship with that record goes back so far and it was so significant when I first started playing. I had already known that record inside out. That was a big reason why I wanted to play. Every one of those solos on there were models for me in terms of my way to go. I can still remember Marion Brown's motif, Shepp's motifs, and of course, Coltrane—and John Tchicai. Each one of them, I studied really closely and had an intimate knowledge with. I didn't feel worried about what other people would think. I think that there probably are some dissenters too, but that's OK. I think we did what we could do. As Glenn Spearman said, "This is like our Handel's Messiah. We should do this every year." We had that attitude about it. He said that we were going to go out there and do it. This is a sacred piece of music that it is just as much ours as it is anybody else's. It doesn't belong to anybody. We're going to celebrate.
FJ: Why don't you perform it every year?
BA: That's a good question, Fred. We talk about it every year, but I don't think we can really afford the time and energy it takes to mount it. And then Glenn Spearman's gone. I think if Glenn were alive, maybe we would. Glenn loved it. I don't think it's over. I think we would be willing to do it over again. And there has been talk on and off.

• 95.12.13 - Glenn Spearman, Raphé 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 Recording

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... Spearman band intro [5:21]

5. Sound Section [13:56]

[75:37]

Also circulating as "incomplete":

 radio announcement

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

• 96.02.01 through 96.12.31 - Glenn Spearman, Artist in Residence / Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sausalito, CA [www.headlands.org; Holly Blake 09.11.30]

• "He had what's called a live-out residency, meaning he didn't live on site, but had studio space here. His studio was in Building 952, otherwise known as The Gym and consisted of an old basketball court along with a smaller back room and balcony.
  
  In his letter applying for the residency, Glenn cited a need for a space... where he could concentrate and focus on compositional projects. He said he had recently started a big band: 'The Headlands residency is exactly what I am looking for at this stage in my career, a place to dig deeper through investigation and the solving of musical problems inherent in big-band composition. To be in a community that is stimulating to the entire artistic process can help me to be more effective, adding some real polish to a lot of the composing I have to do at home (where my heart is) but oftentimes because of the family obligations can lead to distractions that can be frustrating when my moments of brilliance are upon me.'"
  —Ms. Holly Blake, Residency Manager at Headlands Center for the Arts (See also: 96.04.21 and 96.10.13.)

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• 96.02.17 - Full Metal Revolutionary Music Ensemble: possible Spearman date on the 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]

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• 96.04.21 - Surya: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Larry Giustino (guitar, Compositions), Stevens St. Clair (bass), Spirit (drums, percussion) / Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sausalito, CA [Holly Blake 09.11.30]
  
  "Glenn took part in two of our three Open House days that year. For the first, on Sunday, April 21, 1996, he performed with his jazz quartet, Surya, in a performance he called 'Draw What You Hear'. Glenn provided paper and drawing materials for audience members to do just that. We have slides of him and Surya playing, with people scattered around on the floor."
  —Ms. Holly Blake, Residency Manager at Headlands Center for the Arts (See 96.02.01 for note on Glenn's Residency.)

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• 96.05.00 - Jazz programming in San Francisco:
  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]
• 96.06.16 - "Wordsongs," a monthly series of music and poetry, features poets Wayne Corbitt, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Juan Felipe Herrera, and saxophonists Glenn Spearman and Richard Howell / 8:00pm, Pro Arts, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA [WEEKEND GUIDE, San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, June 15, 1996, p.E-2]
• 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]
• 96.07.03 - Marco Eneidi: (no personnel details) Spearman? / "New in San Francisco is..." Venue 9, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.8 August 1996 p.4]
• 96.07.17 - Glenn Spearman & Vinny Golia / Venue 9, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.8 August 1996 p.4; "Recordings," San Francisco Weekly, July 17, 1996]

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]

• 96.08.03 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / 7:00pm, Radio Valencia, San Francisco, CA [San Francisco Chronicle August 3, 1996, p.D-2]

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]

2. Principles of Duality [1:16]

2. Living Organs—Parallel Planes [20:00]

2. Archetypal Space [5:19]

96.09.07 • Marco Eneidi & The American Jungle Orchestra:

 Special Guest: Jackson Krall

 

1. Landscapes 1 + 11 (Eneidi) [21:36]

2. Last Flight of the Nez Perce—Walowa (Eneidi) [9:38]

3. Lakota—upper (Eneidi) [4:02]

4. Jumpin' at the Woodside (Basie) [8:38]

96.09.14 • Marco Eneidi & The American Jungle Orchestra:

 Special Guest: ROVA

 "ROVA couldn't, 'cept for Jon and Bruce, which plus Glenn and Greenlief became RAGS." —Marco Eneidi

 

1. Prairie Sunrise (Eneidi) [2:56]

2. R.A.G.S. (Raskin/Ackley/Greenleaf/Spearman) [3:39]

3. Lakota—lower (Eneidi) [12:25]

4. Going to Meet the Man (Eneidi) [12:58]

5. Last Flight of the Nez Perce—Toolhollzote (Eneidi) [7:28]

96.09.21 • Marco Eneidi & The American Jungle Orchestra:

 Special Guest: Bertram Turetzky

 

1. Neruda/Segovia (Turetzky) [5:28]

2. Way, Way Down Low (Malachi Favors Magoustof) [3:47]

3. Landscapes VI-X (Eneidi) [22:43]

96.09.28 • Marco Eneidi & The American Jungle Orchestra

 Special Guest: Wadada Leo Smith

 

1. Landscape III (Eneidi) [1:06]

2. Wadada (Smith) [4:38]

3. Landscapes IV-V (Eneidi) [28:27]

96.10.00 • Surya: Up

1. Up (Part 1) [22:22]

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

• 96.10.13 - Surya: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Larry Giustino (guitar, Compositions), Stevens St. Clair (bass), Spirit (drums, percussion); Shantee Rose, Rebecca Sheridan, and Myeongsuk Jeong (dance) / Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sausalito, CA [Holly Blake 09.11.30]
  
  "For the Fall Open House on Sunday, October 13, 1996, Glenn performed with Surya and dancers Shantee Rose, Rebecca Sheridan, and Myeongsuk Jeong. We also have slide documentation of that performance."
  —Ms. Holly Blake, Residency Manager at Headlands Center for the Arts (See 96.02.01 for note on Glenn's Residency.)

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• 96.10.25 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Ochs, Ellis, Robinson, Winant, Brown / Venue 9, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.11 November 1996 p.123]
• 96.11.01 - Marco Eneidi Ensemble: Personnel? / Venue 9, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.22 no.11 November 1996 p.123]
• 96.11.11 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio: Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / 8:00 and 10:00pm, Yoshi's Nitespot, 6030 Claremont, Oakland, CA [San Francisco Weekly 96.11.06]
• 96.12.08 - Glenn Spearman Group: Spearman (tenor sax), Marco Eneidi (alto sax), Matthew Goodheart (piano), John Schott (electric guitar), Lisle Ellis (bass), Donald Robinson (drums) / Beanbenders, Oakland, CA [Dave Anderson 12.02.23]

97.01.25 • Marco Eneidi º Glenn Spearman º William Parker º 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 03.12.18; CODA #275, September/October 1997 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]

8. Initiation (Spearman) [5:39]

8. The Natural Thing (Spearman / Heward / Cauley / Prentice / Duval) [7:17]

• 97.05.24 - Glenn Spearman & John Heward Duo / Unitarian Meeting House, Amherst, MA [Poster by James Burpee, from Signal to Noise Issue #58, Summer 2010 p.28]
  
  

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

• Various Artists: Inside Out in the Open
  Asymmetric Pictures (BETA SP) 2001; ESP 4042 (DVD) 2008
  60:00 Color Film

1. Hurricane (collective) [6:30]

2. unknown title [:]

• 97.06.00 - Glenn Spearman Trio: Matthew Goodheart, unknown / Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA [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]
  Does anyone have a recording of this session? —Rick Lopez needs to know.
• 97.10.29 - Glenn Spearman Double Trio Donald Robinson (drums), Ben Lindgren (bass), Larry Ochs (reeds), William Winant (percussion), Chris Brown (piano) / Also Orchestrova, Rova Saxophone Quartet, What We Live, Actual Size, John Raskin Quintet, Adams-Connah Group / San Francisco Jazz Festival, "ROVA 20th Anniversary Celebration", 8:00pm, Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA / "S.F. Jazz Festival countdown begins" by Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner, Monday, July 14, 1997 [www.sfgate.com; Chris Brown, Selected Performances, from the Mills College Archives; Dave Anderson 12.02.23]
• 97.11.02 - Raphé Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Boston, MA [Cadence Vol.23 no.10 October, 1997, p.125]
• 97.11.03 - Raphé Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Philadelphia, PA [ibid]
• 97.11.05 - Raphé Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / New York City [ibid]
• 97.11.06 - Raphé Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Brattleboro, VT [ibid]
• 97.11.07 - Raphé Malik Quartet with Glenn Spearman / Bennington College, Bennington, VT [ibid]
• 97.11.08 - Raphé 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. unknown titles [:]

• 98.01.11 - Matthew Goodheart Trio: Goodheart (piano), Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Donald Robinson (drums) / Benicia, CA [The Militant, Vol.62/No.3 January 26, 1998]
  
  "More than 50 friends, collaborators, and colleagues of Frank Kofsky met here January 11 to celebrate his life. Kofsky, a professor of history of California State University at Sacramento, author, and frequent lecturer on jazz, was 62 years old when he died November 19. He was the author, among other works, of Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music, its revised edition, John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s, and the forthcoming new book Black Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz, all published by Pathfinder Press.
  
  Glenn Spearman, a jazz musician and instructor at Mills College in Oakland who was a longtime friend of Kofsky's, commented that 'Frank knew jazz. He respected and knew the hard way jazz artists have to go in the United States.'"
  "Meeting Celebrates The Life Of Frank Kofsky," by Askai Touré, in The Militant

• 98.01.24 - Glenn Spearman's G-Force: Glenn Spearman (sax), George Cremaschi (bass), Donald Robinson (drums), unknown (guitar), and special guest Marco Eneidi (alto 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 1998 p.140]
• 98.01.31 - Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra: (no personnel details) Spearman present? / Sets at 7:30 & 9:00pm / 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 / Radio Valencia Cafe, San Francisco, CA ["Riff Raff" SF Weekly Feb. 11, 1998]
  Cadence Vol.24 no.2 February '98 p.140 has the group at "Inside Out".

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]
  "...beginning February 2... The guest artists/instructors include LA trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith...; Oakland saxophone colossus Glenn Spearman...; East Bay violinist India Cooke...; and ingenious conductor/cornetist Butch Morris... Each workshop will meet twice a week for three weeks, with a public performance expected to cap each session." —Sam Prestianni, San Francisco Weekly, January 20, 1998
  
• 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: Glenn, Spearman, Marco Eneido, Gianni Gebbia, Damon Smith, Spirit, others / Beanbender's, Berkeley, CA [ibid; Cadence Vol.24 no.4, April 1998 p.140]
  "When I was volunteering for the Beanbender's series, I recorded the April 19, 1998 performace of the American Jungle Orchestra. I remember Glenn playing that night, and my notes confirm this." —Michael Zelner 09.12.08

• 98.05.00 - Myles Boisen Guitar Trio: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Marco Eneidi (alto sax) / The Sweat Shop, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.24 no.6, June 1998 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 • Raphé Malik Quartet: Companions

1. Lyon's Jump [13:24]

2. Emblematic [10:38]

3. Health Food [9:53]

4. Bend [7:19]

• 98.00.00 (2) - "Glenn also performed as part of the Raphé Malik Quintet in Albany sometime in early 1998..." [Peter Gershon (Signal to Noise) 03.03.23]
• 98.05.30 - Jazz Summit: Glenn Spearman (tenor sax), Raphé 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 10:00am (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' 04.01.06]

98.07.02 • Matthew Goodheart Trio + One [Audience Recording]

1. unknown titles [60:00]

• 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 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]

• 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]

• "You may or may not know that Glenn was working on a duo record with Donald Robinson for Michael Ehlers before he died. This project remains unreleased and in my vault. Inquiries to Ehlers about the fate of this project have gone unanswered..."
  —Myles Boisen (Guerrilla Recording) 09.12.08

• 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 friends 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, "Other folks who played at the 99.03.06 memorial concert in Amherst were Marco Eneidi, Donald Robinson (who was fucking incredible that night), Dominic Duval, and myself (I played duo with Duval) and I think Sabir Mateen and John Heward also played." —Matthew Goodheart 09.12.15 / 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]
  
  

Glenn Spearman Music Festival, February 13th through 18th

• 00.02.13 - Dedication of the Glenn Spearman Archive into the Mills College Library Collection, with a Panel Discussion / 2:00pm, Olin Library, Heller Rare Book Room, Mills College, Oakland, CA [www.bayimproviser.com/events.htm]

• 00.02.14 - Double Trio: performance and live recording of Glenn Spearman's last major composition: "Nut Dust and Powder before the Altar (Goobers)" performed by the original members of Glenn Spearman's Double Trio, including Larry Ochs, Chris Brown, Willy Winat, Lisle Ellis..." / 20:00 Mills College Concert Hall [ibid]

• 00.02.15 - The Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble under the direction of Fred Frith, with guest soloists Karen Borca, Oluyemi Thomas, Spirit, and Jack Foley / 20:00, Mills College Concert Hall [ibid]

• 00.02.16 - Marco Eneidi's "OTA Xstatic" with Damon Smith, Marshall Trammell, and Nicco Eneidi; JD Parran & Shantee Spearman Duo; What We Live: Larry Ochs, Lisle Ellis, Donald Robinson / 20:00, Mills College Concert Hall [ibid]

• 00.02.17 - Positive Knowledge: Oluyemi Thomas, Ijeoma Thomas, Spirit; Chris Brown Solo piano; Matthew Goodheart Solo piano; Marco Eneidi, Eddie Gale, Karen Borca, Kash Killion, and Donald Robinson Quintet / 20:00, Mills College Concert Hall [ibid]

• 00.02.18 - Marco Eneidi and the American Jungle Orchestra; 40 piece orchestra with full string section and vocal choir / 20:00, Mills College Concert Hall [ibid]

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• 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]