MUSIC

Dave Lovell on Front Porch

Hometown pal David Lovell plays guitar on front porch of the old James Family home, 268 Wilton Road, Westport, Connecticut circa 1961

Monterrey Jazz Festival, 1965, hanging out before the show. The women on the right appears to have walked out of a Quentin Tarantino movie.

Pete Seeger at Chicago's Peoples Church

Pete Seeger at The People's Music Network event held in the Preston-Bradley Hall at the Peoples Church in Uptown, Chicago January 1999.

Pete Seeger at Chicago's Peoples Church 2

Ella performed, with Pete Seeger at The People's Music Network event held in the Preston-Bradley Hall at the Peoples Church in Uptown, Chicago January 1999.

Sunday Morning Bluesmen on Maxwell Street

Still trying to verify all these players; we think Joe Carter, L.V. Banks and John Henry Davis are in this picture, taken one Sunday morning at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market. Chicago, Illinois 1981.

The Late Great Tom Dundee

Tom at the Heartland Cafe, where he had worked, once, briefly, as a lineman en la cocina.

Ella Jenkins at Peoples Church

Ella performed, with Pete Seeger at The People's Music Network event held in the Preston-Bradley Hall at the Peoples Church in Uptown, Chicago January 1999.

David Boykin at the No Exit Cafe

David Boykin was hot on the scene at the "Unusual Pairings" Sunday afternoon jazz sets at the No Exit Cafe, produced by the late saxophonist William Perry. Chicago, Illinois 2002.

David Boykin Sunday at the No Exit Cafe

David Boykin appearing at "Unusual Pairings" Sunday jazz set at the No Exit Cafe, produced by the late saxophonist William Perry. Chicago, Illinois 2002.

Drummer

Drummer appearing at "Unusual Pairings" Sunday jazz set at the No Exit Cafe, produced by the late saxophonist William Perry. Chicago, Illinois 2002.

Sunday Session at the No Exit Cafe

The late William Perry's "Unusual Pairings" featured many fine players, induding: Jeff Parker, Harrison Bankhead, Billy Brimfield, David Young's New Republic, Earnest Dawkins, David Boykin, Tatsu Aoki, Ameen Muhamed, Niki Mitchell, Jim Baker, Josh Abrams, Martha Stahl, Avreeayl Ra, Robert Berry, Edward Wilkerson, Bill Artope and many more. Chicago, Illinois 2002.

David Boykin's Expanse at No Exit Cafe

David Boykin and Expanse with Niki Mitchell and ... at the late William Perry's Unusual Pairings Sessions at the No Exit Cafe, Chicago, Illinois 2002.

Nicole Mitchell at the No Exit Cafe

The late saxaphonist William Perry produced the "Unusual Pairings" jazz sets on Sunday afternoons at the No Exit Cafe, Chicago, Illinois 2002.

You Want to Hear What?

Staff at Round Records, Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois circa 1979

Mike McGraw aka Michael Piranha of the Piranha Brothers

Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois circa 1983

Poet John Sinclair at the Heartland Cafe

I first met John of the White Panther Party when a contingent of Rising Up Angry folks were his guests at the first Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. Over the years we've seen each other, including at his performances at the No Exit Cafe, Redline Tap and the Heartland Cafe. This picture is from the Heartland in 2002.

Lonely Bass

Break time, not garbage time, at Wine Bar session, Mesilla, NM, Sunday, April 23, 2017