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I present this last of all, almost with apology, or to say, "this is of only antiquarian interest." It is of sentimental value to me, since it is the first recording I made of any playing, on a sixties-style Sony cassette recorder. Through the 70s I'd been picking up the sax, which I'd pretty much abandoned after my teenage years, and in Jan. 1979 I finally committed myself to the instrument in the spirit of "do or die." I had been playing with a local jazz group, which dissed me for "trying to play like Eric Dolphy" when I felt I'd finally achieved something. I woke up the next morning, turned on the tape recorder and played this, which begins at the beginning. It amazes me how much it is still "me."

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from Sample tape: 1979​-​1985, released June 1, 2015

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Jack Wright Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spring Garden Music is first of all a house owned by Jack Wright on a street of that name in Phila. and occupied by improvising musicians. It is also the name for a collective musical project, and a record label, available on the website below. Images are paintings by Barbara Upton or Jack Wright ... more

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