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Richard Wells's avatar

The Creator has a Master Plan - When I was a young improvisational dancer in Chicago, that cut off of Pharaoh's Karma album was my first loosely structured group performance. I used it for years. I don't agree with the theology, but Leon Thomas still rocks my world.

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My introduction to John was his duo with David Murray on Sketches of Tokyo. When I moved to the City in 1990, he was in the clubs. I saw him at Zinno's bar one night, and I got to tell him how at Bradleys he'd played so intensely at 3 am that I saw the legs of their 9-ft Baldwin float 2-inches off the ground. Then I saw him at Birdland, the Vanguard and the Montreal Jazz fest with George Lewis. Incredible!

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