September 25, 2004
Miles Davis, last time in Boston
Miles Davis', Last Time in Boston
My son Liam gifted me the tickets for Miles' last time live in Boston. The wonderful night in the resulted in a series of ink brush drawings. This is one arrangement of several of them. 50 or so individual quick brush strokes representations, even more, depending on how I'd count when 2 figures were on one card.
Bob Young's photographer got a shot of me arranging, seeing groups, clusterings, of the Miles'Sketches. The Boston Herald Jazz Critic wandered by my print display and was enthused enough to introduce my work to his Herald readers in December of 1993.
ROSWELL RUDD......BARRY ALTSCHUL......DAVE DOUGLASSalso Brad Jones on bass
In the early sixties 'JB' [Jack Bernstein] with the MIT Jazz Club brought Archie Shepp into Kresge Auditorium with Beaver Harris, drums, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Roswell Rudd, trombone. I taxied all but Archie around in my white Ford Econoline window van for the day of the gig. Recently we had this chance to enjoy Roswell Rudd's braying trombone again this time with the trumpet of Dave Douglas, Charlie Kolhase brandishing saxaphones, at Harvard's Sander's theatre.
STEVE LACY and IRENE AEBI at the MFA 
STEVE LACY at the MFA, solo with 10 for Duke
STEVE LACY at the Near East
STEVE LACY at New England Conservatory plays Chagrin during the Charlie Parker Festival
SunRa and his Arkestra at Roger Williams Park in Providence Rhode Island.
Jack and I drove down to this wonderful afternoon together for this one.
This set illustrates how various of the single card brush drawing are grouped for a set of four prints. Below to the right are one of my favorites of Miles alone,
then a few of the various sidemen. I'll run across the Bob Blumenthal review as I'm organizing these image files and add the rest of the night's line-up.
tried putting this up by Miles, at the top...couldn't find it!???