I am hoping to get time, via the magic of technology, the telephone preferably, with members of Abraham Incorporated, a funk and klezmer band that plays Cal Performances at Zellerbach on Sunday evening November 13, 2011. I had interviewed live on air for KZSU and even jammed with (ok, backing vocals and slapping percussive elements onto the conference table) band members David Krakauer (clarinet) and Josh “Socalled” Dolgin (keyboards) a few years ago, January, 2009, when they were at Jen Bilfield’s Stanford Lively Arts with a Matt Haimovitz-led Messiaen project — although our little session was more about Akoka and Klezmer than classical, as I recall.
Alert “Plastic Alto” readers will recall that I am also perhaps interviewing Josh Roseman, the trombone player leading a session on Jamaican jazz (think Don Drummond) at Stanford the night before, Saturday, November 13. Hey, I wonder if there can be a secret midnight jam session at a neutral location — like a barge floating in the SF Bay — where Abraham Incorporated and Josh Roseman Unit can have a cutting session or work together. It will be a literal bone-a-rama.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
this is a bit of a red herring in that Kraky plays with Matt Haimovitz but not in Abraham Inc. Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley play at Yoshi’s as a duo this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 in SF.
If i get to it, I will add it as an item in real time, and I want to link it to Jim Newton on Eisenhower and Lucille Ball during the McCarthywas Era — Walter Winchell said that Ball was a member of the Communist Party and Desi Arnaz made a joke about her being a red head but even that came out of a bottle.