Favorite Recordings: Bruce Ackley
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NOTABLES [a collection of memorable performances that changed my way of thinking about music]:
Evan Parker playing solo soprano saxophone in Vancouver in 1978.
Lyn Hejinian telling ghost stories and reading her work
The Guard at the Clarion Café on Mission Street in 1984.
Anthony Braxton Quartet performance with
Marilyn Crispell,
Mark Dresser and
Gerry Hemingway at
Yoshi's (mid to late 1980s).
Mauricio Kagel live interview with
Charles Amirkhanian in his
Speaking of Music series at the
Exploratorium, San Francisco, early 1980s.
John Zorn performance of Against the Funnel (Theatre of Musical Optics piece), my apartment SF, 1977.
Diamanda Galas Wild Women with Steak Knives live in San Francisco, 1980.
Sun Ra Arkestra performing
Fletcher Henderson tunes at the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 1978 (same bill with Dead Kennedys and Tuxedo Moon!).
Steve Lacy solo show at the Sweat Shop, Mission Street San Francisco, March 1999.
Shostakovich String Quartet #15 performed by candlelight by the
Russian Borodin Quartet at San Francisco State, 1992.
Roscoe Mitchell solo alto saxophone, Mapenzi Club, Berkeley, 1978.
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Museum of Modern Art, SF June, 1975
