[Joseph Jarman describes this gig.] "Early in 1963, a tall, thin
young man entered the student lounge at Wilson Jr. College with an alto
saxophone in his hand. Each Wednesday afternoon the musicians got
together to play music. Invited outsiders would sometimes come
together to play with us, people like Jack DeJohnette, Steve McCall and
Muhal Richard Abrams. They were not students but they would come
to help us learn how to ‘do it right.’ I had seen
this kid the day before in the student lounge playing chess. Since he
wasn’t very good at chess (later he became the group champ) I
wondered what his saxophone playing would be like. If the
audience clapped for you after a solo it meant the solo was all right;
if they didn’t, it meant go back to the practice room. When
the kid played, nobody put their hands together, but he didn’t
mind the system, he just stood around looking a bit confused and a
little bit hurt. I saw him a few more times. Here and there
he would appear. By the end of the summer he was gone, some said
to the army. Those of us who had been there said too
bad." Joseph Jarman, in Mixtery, p. 24.