Also: a shout-out to nearby Tag Team Kitchen, whose owner sold me 200g of fresh pizza dough (not an official offering from them, to my knowledge) and care-and-feeding instructions, since it's going to sit in the freezer for a few days and hasn't yet fermented.
![He called me up and asked if I would join his band. I was
very interested in trying to get the things I was playing
in the public's eye, but I was having too much trouble with
the business, so I hadn't been out in clubs for a long time. I.
thought I'd better go out and see what's going on. When I
went to the Vanguard, Max Gordon called me over and said,
'Somebody just cancelled-could you bring in a band?' And
that's the only thing that stopped me from joining Coltrane.
In the early 60s he was studying with me. He was
interested in non-chordal playing, and I had cut my teeth on
that stuff. He later sent me a letter which included thirty
dollars for each lesson, and thanked me. [That influence]
showed up very clearly because all of a sudden a guy who
had been playing very 'legitimately' started playing strictly
from his own spiritual and emotional state without worrying
about his past. Had he lived, Trane would probably have
legitimized that concept. I thought he had a beautiful tone. I
thought it was very humane.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x746j3gysirvt6ink7j2a5a5/bafkreihqgnf3y4uzjzinv3f3lezsw3lbzuajjqdxkgnum6nv3esmffj23u)
