Geography...and San Diego

[KRosser414@aol.com]

>Jeff, please don't take this as "piling on", but I have to agree with
>Stu Leibig.  

>I don't mean to toot San Diego's horn too much and in fact admit that
>finding good avant-garde here takes a bit of work.  But's its not that 
>hard
>here, what with UCSD's music department and the folks associated with it.

>I get a decent dose of avant-garde at a place called Spruce Street Forum.
>Just missed Stu's quartet there but did manage to see KRosser play with
>Brad Dutz as well as other quality improv artists.  Yes, Bonnie the 
>director
>relies on donations to pay folks from NYC to come down here, but she also
>has performers from the West Coast, Canada, and, yes, even San Diego
>play at the Forum.

Well, I don't want to pile on the tooting of our own horns, but I'll be 
back
at Spruce Street on Feb 20 with a group led by SF Bay Area tubist Tom 
Heasley
and featuring myself on guitars & loops and Bobby Bradford on cornet.

Ken R