Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART With eremite records First & Last by Glenn Spearman

"What does it matter what you say about people?" --Marlene Dietrich as Tanya in -Touch of Evil- "He played the hell out of his horn." A first image: "Maestro!" those were the first words he said to me. In '93, after a set with my quintet at Radio Valencia. At least in person. We had been on the phone before, set up a time to meet, an isolated voice: "If you want to talk about music, give me a call." But that was when I first met him, saw him standing before me, the whole size of him. There were always images of wind, the storm, the hurricane. The Tempest, & he blew you right off, out of the stage, onto you damn head. "You're kickin' my ass, man." What does it matter what you say about people? Each sound contains the encapsulation of our condition; an entrance, a varying sustain, a decay. Notes like the lives of people. Filled with the ase, their rich resonances giving meaning. Sounds uttered by a Creator who both is & is not. Divine Truth encapsulates both a created & a non-created universe; a transcendence discovered in sound, in the act of utterance. Glenn believe in the Creator, in the divine seed. He possessed that seed. He spoke... more credits released August 8, 2020 Glenn Spearman: Tenor Saxophone Rashid Bakr: drums Matthew Goodheart: piano 25 July, 1998, Bezanson Retical Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst producer: Michael Ehlers engineer: Alen Hadzi-Stefanov cover photo: Jerri Carroll

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