1975 May 17 - Stanley Crouch Black Music Infinity Outdoors, afternoon, color snapshots. • Stanley Crouch - drums • Bobby Bradford - trumpet • James Newton - flute • David Murray - tenor sax • Roberto Miranda - bass June or July - John Carter Ensemble at Rudolph's Fine Arts Center (owner Rudolph Porter)Rudolph's Fine Art Center, 3320 West 50th Street (50th at Crenshaw) • John Carter — soprano sax & clarinet • Stanley Carter — bass • William Jeffrey — drums 1976 June 1 - John Fahey at The Lighthouse December 15 - WARNE MARSH PHOTO Shoot in his studio (a detached garage converted to a music studio) 1490 N. Mar Vista, Pasadena CA afternoon December 23 - Dexter Gordon at The Lighthouse 1976 June 21 – John Carter Ensemble at the Speakeasy, Santa Monica Blvd (just west of LaCienega) (first jazz photos with my new Fujica ST701 SLR camera) • John Carter — clarinet & soprano sax • Roberto Miranda — bass • Stanley Carter — bass • William Jeffrey — drums • Melba Joyce — vocals (Bobby Bradford's first wife) June 26 - Art Ensemble of Chicago Studio Z, on Slauson in South Central L.A. (in those days we called the area Watts) 2nd-floor artists studio. AEC + John Carter, clarinet sat in (I recorded this on cassette) Rassul Siddik, trumpet June 24 - AEC played 3 nights June 24-26 artist David Hammond's Studio Z shots of visitors (didn't play) Bobby Bradford, Tylon Barea (drummer, graphic artist), Rudolph Porter July 2 - Frank Lowe Quartet Century City Playhouse. • Frank Lowe — tenor sax • Butch Morris - drums; bass? • James Newton — cornet, violin; • Tylon Barea -- flute, sitting in (guest) July 7 - John Lee Hooker Calif State University Fullerton • w/Ron Thompson, guitar August 7 - James Newton Quartet w/guest John Carter Century City Playhouse September 5 - opening show at The Little Big Horn, 34 N. Mentor, Pasadena. • Bobby Bradford's workshop/club *I photo'd many many times there for the next 2 (3?) years October 23 - John Carter & family visit at my alley house in Upland California (400 1/2 Laurel Avenue). Chris Carter, Gloria Carter, my brother Brian, and my then-wife Sharon Barreras, in the pix October 24 - John Carter Ensemble at Little Big Horn • w/young (JC's youngest of 4) Chris Carter, finger cymbals October 7 - Warne Marsh at Donte's October 3 - John Carter Ensemble Little Big Horn November 16 - Eddie Cleanhead Vinson at Beverly Cavern November 15 - Harold Land & Blue Mitchell at Beverly Cavern November 19 - Bobby Bradford stage band at Claremont College's basement club The Smudgepot October 8 - James Newton (leader) Balch Auditorium, Claremont Colleges • James Newton, Glenn Ferris, Tylon Barea 1977 January 6 - David Murray (leader) Century City Playhouse • Roberto Miranda — bass • Oliver Johnson — drums • guests: James Newton & John Carter sat in *a photo from this night was used on John Carter's self-produced Lp ECHOES FROM RUDOLPH'S cover January 8 - Max Roach at Howard Rumsey's Concerts by the Sea January 14 - Bobby Bradford on KPFK w/jocks John Breckow & Paul Vangelisti January 4 - David Murray photos & interview on KSPC, Claremont January 15 - James Newton & David Murray duets at Smudge Pot, Claremont January 30 - Horace Tapscott Immanuel United Church of Christ(85th & Holmes) Los Angeles January 26 - Warne Marsh at Donte's (I recorded some of this on cassette) • Nick Ceroli — drums • Lou Levy — piano • Monty Budwig — bass • w/Art Pepper - alto sax February 6 - Warne Marsh — Gary Foster Quintet at Donte's February 25 - Bobby Bradford at Avery Auditorium, Pitzer (Claremont Colleges) March 5 - Eddie Cleanhead Vinson • Donald Bailey, Bobby Blevins, Leo Blevins March 13 - El Monte Art Ensemble Century City Playhouse • Buell Neidlinger • Marty Krystall • Don Preston • Deborah Fuss — drums March 16 - Teddy Wilson at Dontes April 16 - Pee Wee Crayton & His Ultimates of Soul Slone's Lounge, 3850 Slauson April 24 - Stanley Crouch, Bobby Bradford, et el. Little Big Horn April 27 - Art Pepper at Dontes April 28 - Warne Marsh Dabney Lounge, Cal Tech, Pasadena • Warne Marsh • Gary Foster • Jim Hughart (bass) • Nick Ceroli (d) • Alan Broadbent (p) 1977 May 1 - John Carter Century City Playhouse May 5 - double-bill at Howard Rumsey's • Art Farmer - Cedar Walton Quartet w/Sam Jones, Billy Higgins • Bill Evans Trio w/Eddie Gomez May 14 - Otis Rush at Lighthouse • w/Tom McFarland, 2nd guitar May Zoot Sims at Dontes • w/Bucky Pizzarelli, Major Holly, Jake Hanna, Dave McKenna July 18 - Red Holloway, Jimmy Witherspoon Improvisation (club) on Melrose July 10 - Harold Land & Blue Mitchell August 28 - Reverend Lonnie Farris September 2 - Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Charles Brown September 9 - Blues With a Feeling at The Raven and the Rose, Sierra Madre, CA • Johnny Turner, Zaven Jambazian September 11 - Reverend Lonnie Farris 20th anniversary appreciation September 11 - Julius Hemphill Century City Playhouse September 18 - John Carter, Bobby Bradford Century City Playhouse October 18 - Vinny Golia recording session for his first Lp on 9 Winds November 5 - Clifton Chenier at Verbum Dei (sp?) high school November 18 - Bobby Bradford & Pomona College Jazz Band Smudge Pot November 28 - Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn duet Century City Playhouse December 18 - Oliver Lake at Century City Playhouse. • James Newton sits in 1978 January 3 - Oliver Lake & John Carter Century City Playhouse March 14 - Cecil Taylor April 6 - Johnny Turner & Blues with a Feeling Claremont April 29 - Bobby Bradford Smudge Pot April 30 – Bobby Bradford Little Big Horn July 14 - Smokey Wilson, Johney Carter (vocals) July 16 - Vinny Golia Sept 24 (or 29?) - Directions The Lighthouse, 30 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach • w/Lester Bowie, John Ambercrombie, Eddie Gomez,Jack DeJohnette November 1 - Gary Foster • August was in San Francisco photographing 1979 February 11 - Bobby Bradford rehearsal at his house in Pasadena February 17 - Dexter Gordon Quartet double bill Bridges Auditorium, Claremont • George Cables, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gladden & Count Basie Orchestra February 23 - double bill Bridges Aud., Claremont • Sarah Vaughan w/Walter Booker, Jimmy Cobb & Mel Torme February 25 - George Sams, Andre St James, Lewis Jordan March 2 - Bobby Bradford Smudge Pot, Claremont Colleges March 20 - Fred Katz April 1 - Bobby Bradford Century City Playhouse April 8 - George Lewis (trombone) Century City Playhouse May 3 - Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell May 6 - Nels Cline & Eric Von Essen duo Century City Playhouse May 11 - Bobby Bradford Smudge Pot May 13 - Vinny Golia, Bradford, John Carter, Glenn Ferris Century City Playhous May 23 - Bob Wilber, Pug Horton, Clark Terry at Dontes May 27 - Prez Conference Dontes May 27 - Dave Frishberg at KPFK June 10 - Blue Mitchell Memorial at Local 47 Hollywood, Vine Street 3pm – llpm • Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ernie Andrews, Bill Berry, Kenny Burrell, Chick Corea, Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Sweets Edison, Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Sarah Vaughan, etc. July 7 - Watts Towers Jazz Festival • Buddy Collette • Horace Tapscott • Moacir Santos • Les McCann (Les—p • Charles Owens — sax • Jack Alien—Tony St James — d • David Williams — b • Odufala — conga) July 15 - Alex Cline and Andrea Centazzo drum duo Century City Playhouse July 16 - Alex Cline, Vinny Golia, John Carter, Centazzo August 8-16 in San Francisco photographing August 29 Bill Berry Big Band Bonaventure Hotel 1979 August 31 - Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band Bonaventure Hotel September 31 - Billy Bang, John Lindberg Century City Playhouse September 27 - Heath Brothers Rurasey's Concerts by the Sea October 1 - Freddie Hubbard (leader) Orient Express, Claremont • Carl Burnett — drums • Larry Klein — electric bass guitar • Billy Childs — elec. piano October 14 - Reverend Johnny Otis at his church (his converted home) 11am services October 17 - Charles McPherson (leader) Pasquales Malibu • Pat Senatore, Roy McCurdy, Carl Shroeder October 20 - Bobby Bradford - John Carter Duo double bill — with Art Ensemble of Chicago at UCLA Shoenberg Hall portraits (head shots) of all 5 AEC members plus candids of Stanley Crouch visiting backstage, and in the afternoon set-up Anthony Braxton hanging around October 27 - Freddie Redd Snooky's (club), 12021 W. Pico (at Bundy) November 11 - Nels Cline at Century City Playhouse November (either 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25)- Sonny Stitt & Red Holloway at Parisien Room November 26 - John Tirabasso at Right Track, Pasadena • John Tirabasso — d • Lew Ciotti — tenor sax • Frank Strazzeri — piano • Steve Huffstetter - flugel_&trpt • Frank DeLaRosa — b September 13 – Dick Barnes • Dick Barnes — washboard • Vic Loring – banjo • Al Cronn – trumpet • Mike Fay — bass • John Smith — sax August 15 - Earthquake McGoons, San Francisco • Turk Murphy — trombone • Bob Helm — cl. • Bob Schultz — trumpet • Bill Carroll — tuba • John Gill — banjo • Pete Clute — piano • + solo performance: Eddy Davis — banjo 1980 January 17 - Art Blakey at Howard Rumsey's • Jimmy Williams — p • Dennis Erwin — b • David Schnitter — tenor sax • Valerie Ponomarev — trumpet • Bobby Watson — alto sax January 20 - double-bill 6pm U.C. Irvine • World Sax Quartet and Vinny Golia Trio January 26 - Lew Tabackin Trio at Maiden Voyage, downtown L.A. • w/Joey Baron — drums; Charlie Haden — bass January 31 - Bobby Hutcherson (leader) • w/Roy McCurdy, Heshima Williams,George Cables, Chauncey, Bobo [notes are garbled — is Harold Land on this date?] February 2 - H. Ray Crawford at Bell's BBQ,Pomona CA • Joel Santiago — organ • Harold Howard — trumpet • Charlie Dumas — drums • Big Buddy Hill — vocals (sat in) and so did Helena