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Glad I carpe-diemed. But fret not if you get the Mosaic!  

Revisiting this one again before I put it back into the shelves. Such nice sound. Joshua Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Brian Blade (drums) Joshua Redman Quartet “RoundAgain” Nonesuch cd

Belden was who I was referring to. I suspect he did not have the Jackie or it would have circulated by now. I remember reading an article about Bob near the end when he was really going through hard times and there was something about a storage unit he got locked out of.

NO IDEA RESIDENCY #1 Ken Vandermark + Mabel Kwan May 29-30, 2025   The inaugural No Idea Residency brings Chicago improvisers Ken Vandermark and Mabel Kwan to Austin for 2 days of wide-ranging activities including: an Artist Talk, Open Rehearsal/Masterclass, film screening of Daniel Kraus' 2007 documentary on Vandermark entitled Musician, and numerous performances spanning new, first-time meetings with Texas artists, a premiere duo collaboration between Vandermark and Kwan, and a night featuring the music of legendary AACM member Fred Anderson and Texas great Dennis González.   All events take place at Monks Jazz Club in East Austin.   Sonic ambiance provided by our good friend Mutarrancho with libations provided by our generous sponsors St. Cecilia and Tito’s Handmade Vodka.   Seating is super limited, so please act fast to secure your place!!   Full program noideafestival.com   PROGRAM   THURSDAY, MAY 29 7pm    [ TICKETS ]   7pm: Film screening of Daniel Kraus’ Work Series #2: Musician 58mins, 2007 Daniel Krauss’ film, Musician, works with a similar methodology as Frederick Wiseman—no voice overs, no talking heads—letting the camera capture events as they unfold in real time. Though Ken Vandermark is at the center of the action, he is not the subject of the film. Instead, the subject is the work it takes for every musician, whatever genre, to get their material onstage and is a one-of-a-kind document of this process.   8pm: Mabel Kwan + Ken Vandermark Duo Mabel Kwan and Ken Vandermark have worked together in various formats, including projects with the new music group Ensemble Dal Niente featuring new work by Roscoe Mitchell, Last Trane to Clover Five (2021), and performances at Big Ears Festival (2022). Since then they have played together in various improvised music groups; this will be their first concert as a duo.   9:15pm: Panel Discussion and Artist Talk Vandermark's resoluteness in managing innumerable projects functions as a springboard to investigate and understand the complexities of establishing and maintaining a creative life in music. Panel members represent different aspects of Ken's sprawling work as musician, label owner (Audiographic Records since 2014), Director of the Catalytic Sound musician cooperative (since 2012), concert presenter (Catalytic Sound Festival since 2020), and writer.   Ken Vandermark - musician Mabel Kwan - musician  Eric Drott - Professor at UT Butler School of Music and author of Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (Duke Press) Pedro Moreno - Founder of Epistrophy Arts, a grass-roots organization dedicated to presenting the finest in improvised music and adventurous jazz in Austin Texas since 1998.  + more TBA   FRIDAY, MAY 30 5-7pm    [ TICKETS ]   Open Rehearsal + Master Class with Ken Vandermark Ken Vandermark leads a 2-hour open rehearsal with his quintet of Texas musicians workshopping music to be performed this evening. Ample time will be left for audience questions about Vandermark’s working process as composer, improvisor, and bandleader.   FRIDAY, MAY 30 7:30pm    [ TICKETS ]   First-Time Meetings: Personal musical languages in dialogue featuring Resident Artists Kwan and Vandermark and Texas musicians from Austin, San Antonio, Denton, and Houston. Set 1: Mabel Kwan + Juan García duo First-time free improvisations between two acclaimed artists investigating the peripheries of contemporary classical, improvised, and experimental music.   Mabel Kwan - piano Juan García - double bass Set 2: Ken Vandermark Texas Ensemble Ken Vandermark presents new compositions exploring distinct melodic, rhythmic and architectural strategies for improvisers. Vandermark will work with Texas musicians Jonathan Horne (Austin), Matthew Frerck (Denton), Stefan González (Denton), and Kory Cook (San Antonio) in a debut collaboration.   Ken Vandermark - tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet Jonathan Horne - electric guitar Matthew Frerck - double bass Stefan González - vibraphone Kory Cook - drumset  FRIDAY, MAY 30 10pm    [ TICKETS ]   Ken Vandermark Presents: The music of Fred Anderson + Dennis González The music of legendary musician Fred Anderson, a founding member of the AACM and a mentor for numerous musicians, is rarely heard outside of Chicago. Vandermark was fortunate enough to work with Anderson on a regular basis, record an album of his compositions with the DKV Trio, as well as feature Anderson as a guest soloist on the Territory Band album, Collide (2007). Vandermark will present a selection of Fred Anderson's pieces in a trio with North Texas musicians Stefan González and Matthew Frerck. The trio will also perform selections of music from Dallas' pioneering trumpeter, artist and educator Dennis González. González established the Dallas Association for Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music (daagnim) in the late 1970s, at the suggestion of Anthony Braxton and Art Lande. The daagnim organization, which functioned both as a group of musicians and as a record label, was based on and named after Chicago's AACM. Dennis' son, drummer and vibraphonist Stefan González, will present selections of his father's music heavily influenced by his work with Chicago colleagues Malachi Favors and Alvin Fielder (via MIssissippi), among others.   Ken Vandermark - tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet Matthew Frerck - double bass Stefan González - drumset

Available in theory.  Good luck finding one.