This is a photograph of a great trombonist by the great photographer named Jacob Blickenstaff who I just discovered today. I met Roswell In 1997 with the Steve Lacy trio and in fact watch them rehearse the day before the show I thought it was their first time seeing each other in many years it was quite a treat my private show

It says “Roswell rug” but it’s really a portrait of my dog Delphi at pace Gallery Palo Alto during a show last month featuring the minimalist art of Agnes Martin who lived in New Mexico but probably not in Roswell and in conjunction with her work they hung some Navajo rugs

Edit to add: I looked it up and it’s about 400 miles from Two Grey Hills The Navajo nation where they make great rugs to Roswell New Mexico where they actually have a museum that includes Agnes Martin in their collection it leaves an answered how often Roswell Road played Santa Fe or Roswell New Mexico Related matter while I was in Santa Fe there was a Carolyn Wonderland show in Los Alamos

And 1: I don’t think I own any Roswell Road albums. Although I own like five Steve Lacy records. But through the magic of this handheld device Roswell has been serenading me while I pack away in plastic alto. Oh yeah, I can just click a button and his music enters my box so to speak

Andand I was surprised and pleased to see on this same sunny side of music that there is a suite of songs featuring the New York labor Corus call Joe he’ll in fact I sent a note to Wayne Horovitz who several years ago created a hole through composed thing about Joe Hill based on at least the book Wallace Stegner the preacher in the slave. That’s a bad auto correct or faults the dictation bug but it reminds me of the movie Terry TMW and I saw about gay conversion therapy.