You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.



















THE TIME WE HAVE, Meld 1 was #3
Jazz in North America, November 2020.
It came back into the Top-40 for the Week of January 21, 2023.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights / And we're all / Here to shine
That great resource, the LOUISIANA
MUSIC FACTORY in New Orleans, now stocks all three albums of mine from 2020-2021--WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #1) and COMPASSION, Poems and Drums and The Time We Have (Meld #1) Each comes with a 12-page Booklet of Lyrics and Images. You can also buy them online from the LMF--louisianamusicfactory.com.
You can also listen and--if you like--
download and buy on BANDCAMP.

WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #2)
Booklet--Lyrics and Images
That great resource, the LOUISIANA
MUSIC FACTORY in New Orleans, now stocks all three albums of mine from 2020-2021--WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #1) and COMPASSION, Poems and Drums and The Time We Have (Meld #1) Each comes with a 12-page Booklet of Lyrics and Images. You can also buy them online from the LMF--louisianamusicfactory.com.
You can also listen and--if you like--
download and buy on BANDCAMP.


Detail from painting by Edgar Brierre. Detail from avocado leaf.


Morikeba Kouyaté, Kidd Jordan, and me in stills from videography by Aristide Phillps on
July 24, 2014, Marigny Recording Studio, New Orleans.

Paulita Maxwell, for sure.

Billy Bonney
(Billy the Kid), perhaps.


Laura on our Buick, Matadero Creek bridge
by Chuck's-and-Janet's house among the
Redwoods, Palo Alto, 1973. Photo by Hunt Hawkins.

Charles Neville.

A scene supposed of 19th-century Samana.


Hortencia, Carnaval.

Reno circa 1956.

Jackie Wilson, Dancers, Shindig.


Rick G. Nelson, Roger Lewis, DP with Cisco Bradley's biography of William Parker,, Herlin Riley
and Kirk Joseph at Marigny Recording Studio, August 2021, after Herlin led us to finding a new language. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.

Hamid, Kidd, DP, Alex (a GALLOP Quartet) in our session for Melissa Gregory Rue's
"Live Out Loud" feature documentary, June 2018. Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee.

Melissa Gregory Rue.


The GALLOP Trio at SPACE Theater, Ukiah, CA in a benefit
co-sponsored by Frey Vineyards. The 'Still Light' poem is about one of three homeless film-makers profiled in Melissa's "Live
Out Loud."

with Dhyani Dharma, San Franciso's Mission District, 2004,
recording the album Poems From Flares. Photo by the painter Julig.

with Stanley and O.C. and our house of Structural Concrete Inegrated Panels, (SCIPs),
New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward, under 'Sky of huge billiows and blue', June 2007.


Nick Benoit.

Michael Torregano Jr.

Mario Abney is a drummer, too.

John and Chuck, whose October birthdays inspired the
'Word Come Down ... It Must Be Love' poem in 2012.


Collage of stills from video by Aristide of the sessionwith Kidd and Morikeba
that brought us the album Women Center Earth, Sea, And Sky.

Three great musicians, Herlin, Roger and Kirk by the New Orleans Jazz Museum with drawing by writer Larry Blumenfeld of Kidd Jordan. Kidd plays on five tracks and is the inspiration for a sixth track. 'Maybe You See Horses' of the 16 that make up WOMEN and MUSIC, Meld 2/

