Albon Holsey (May 31, 1883, Athens, Georgia - January 16, 1950, Tuskegee, Alabama) was an African American business leader.
According to Albon L. Holsey, slavery deprived blacks of the opportunity to learn the art of business. Through his efforts with the National Negro Business League, the Colored Merchant’s Association, and writings about black business topics, Holsey attempted to assist African Americans in competing and succeeding in the world of commerce.
Holsey was the son of Albon Chase Holsey and Sallie Thomas Holsey. As a boy, he attended Knox Institute in Athens, Georgia, and later he matriculated at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Holsey joined the staff of Tuskegee Institute in 1914, during the time that the famous educator, Booker T Washington, headed the institution. He was hired as an assistant to Washington’s secretary, Emmett J. Scott. During his tenure, Holsey worked as secretary to president Robert R. Morton and assistant to president Frederick D. Patterson, served as associate editor of the Tuskegee Student and possibly acted as director of public relations. Between 1938 and 1944, Holsey was also on loan to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. While working for the government, he was involved in projects related to black farmers. Holsey worked at Tuskegee for thirty-six years.
A brief chronology of the Holsey's life reads as follows:
1883
Born in Athens, Georgia on May 31
1906
Marries Basiline Boyd on October 3
1914
Joins staff of Tuskegee Institute
1929
Expands Colored Merchants’ Association nationally
1930
Receives Harmon Foundation Award for achievements in business
1950
Dies in Tuskegee, Alabama on January 16
Holsey wrote numerous articles, most related to business topics, including the article “Learning How to be Black,” in which Holsey described the experiences of African American children that triggered their consciousness of color and the “deadly toll” on the manhood of the race. In “Public Relations Intuitions of Booker T. Washington,” Holsey described Washington’s common sense approach to keeping good relationships with various constituencies involved with Tuskegee Institute. The Public Opinion Quarterly published Holsey’s lengthy review of a book on the subject of black newspapers in 1948. Holsey, in a chapter in The Progress of a Race , recapitulated the first twenty-five years of the NNBL. He was business manager ofCrisis , the official publication of the NAACP, during the time that W. E. B. Du Bois edited the periodical.
Holsey was a member of the Masons and Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. The 1928–29 edition of Who’s Who in Colored America lists his political and religious affiliations as Republican and as African Methodist Episcopal.
After a brief illness, Holsey died on January 16, 1950, in John Andrews Memorial Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, at 67 years of age. Funeral services were held on January 26 in the Tuskegee Institute chapel. His wife, Basiline Boyd Holsey, whom he married on October 3, 1906, survived him. A sister, Annie Holsey of Baltimore, and brothers, Augustus J. Holsey and Crosby Holsey of Baltimore and Cleveland, respectively, also survived him. He was buried in Tuskegee.
Leslie Lee, a playwright whose award-winning work, much of it with the Negro Ensemble Company, focused on stretching the boundaries of the African-American experience as it was portrayed on the stage, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 83.
The cause was congestive heart failure, Heather Massie, a friend, said.
Over four decades, Mr. Lee wrote more than two dozen stage works, scouring American history for his subjects and characters. In “Black Eagles,” he wrote about black fighter pilots in Italy in World War II. In “Ground People” (originally titled “The Rabbit Foot”), he wrote about Southern black sharecroppers and visiting minstrel-show performers in the 1920s.
In “Blues in a Broken Tongue,” the daughter of a family that had moved to Russia in the 1930s as an escape from racism discovers a pile of recordings by Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson and others and reconsiders her heritage. An early play, “The War Party,” was about the conflicts within a community civil rights organization in the 1960s.
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A scene from the 2008 revival of his play, “The First Breeze of Summer,” by the Signature Theater Company. The 1975 Broadway production was nominated for a Tony.Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
In “The Book of Lambert,” written in the 1970s and set contemporaneously on an abandoned New York subway platform, a black intellectual has been reduced to despair by the loss of the white woman he loves. In “Colored People’s Time,” Mr. Lee presented a century of black history, from the Civil War to the dawn of the civil rights movement, in a pageantlike parade of vignettes.
“One can be black and also many other things,” Mr. Lee said in a 1975 interview about his writerly concerns. “I want to expand the thinking of blacks about themselves.”
Most of Mr. Lee’s work was produced Off Broadway and on regional stages, though his best-known play, “The First Breeze of Summer” (1975), appeared on Broadway, at the Palace Theater, after moving from the St. Mark’s Playhouse, then the home of the Negro Ensemble Company, in the East Village. It was nominated for a Tony Award for best play. (Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” was the winner.)
“The First Breeze of Summer” tells the story of a middle-class black family in Pennsylvania whose ambitious and sensitive younger son is emotionally derailed when he learns the past secrets of the grandmother he reveres. Mr. Lee acknowledged that it was an autobiographical work. And at a time when black theater was often polemical, it was notable for its naturalistic drama and its probing of family dynamics and character.
That it had its debut in an earlier era, both theatrically and journalistically, was evident in Walter Kerr’s review in The New York Times.
“For all the explicitly black experience detailed in ‘The First Breeze of Summer,’ ” Mr. Kerr wrote near the conclusion of an unqualified rave that was redolent of surprise, “I have rarely seen a play at which someone who is not black can feel so completely at home.”
Leslie Earl Lee was born on Nov. 6, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and grew up nearby in West Conshohocken, one of nine children. His mother, the former Clementine Carter, was a homemaker; his father, John Henry Lee, like the patriarch in “First Breeze,” was a plastering contractor.
Mr. Lee studied English and biology at the University of Pennsylvania — he thought he would be a doctor — and worked as a hospital medical technician, as a bacteriologist for the state health department and as a researcher for Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, before abandoning his scientific pursuits in the mid-1960s to study playwriting at Villanova University. (For a time, his roommate was David Rabe, who went on to his own award-winning playwriting career).
Mr. Lee taught writing at several colleges, including New York University, and wrote several television scripts, including an adaptation of Richard Wright’s short story “Almos’ a Man.” “The First Breeze of Summer” was broadcast as part of the “Great Performances” series on public television.
His other stage work includes two collaborations with the composer Charles Strouse and the lyricist Lee Adams, creators of “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Applause” and other shows. Together they updated another Strouse-Adams show, “Golden Boy,” the 1964 musical based on Clifford Odets’s boxing drama; the newer version, with Mr. Lee’s book, was presented in 1989 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida.
The three men also worked on a musical about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that follows Dr. King from his teenage years in Atlanta to the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s. The show had its premiere Off Broadway at the Kraine Theater in 2011.
Mr. Lee won numerous Audelco Awards, given to black theater artists and productions. He was married once and divorced. He is survived by a brother, Elbert, and three sisters, Evelyn Lee Collins, Grace Lee Wall and Alma Lee Coston.
In 2008, “The First Breeze of Summer” was revived Off Broadway by the Signature Theater Company in a production that starred Leslie Uggams and was directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
“He captured African-American life with all its frailties and all its power,” Mr. Santiago-Hudson said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “Most of all he bestowed integrity on people, even when they were ne’er-do-wells or people whose intentions weren’t the best for other folks. Leslie wasn’t only poetic; he was authentic.”
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Leslie Lee, Playwright of the African-American Experience, Dies at 83
Leslie Lee, a playwright who chronicled the modern African-American experience in America, and a mainstay artist at the Negro Ensemble Company, died Jan. 20 in Manhattan. He was 83.
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Mr. Lee's first produced work at NEC—and probably his best-known play overall—was The First Breeze of Summer, which bowed in March 1975, when the company was a decade old. Directed by NEC's founder, Douglas Turner Ward, the cast featuredCharles Brown, Frances Foster, Moses Gunn andLou Myers.
A naturalistic, autobiographical, family drama set in Pennsylvania—where Mr. Lee was born—it told of a young man who uncovers some disturbing family secrets from his grandmother, a women he reveres. "Both playwright and director have avoided simple stereotypes, and the people in the play emerge as richly complex human beings," wrote the New York Times.
It won three Obie Awards, including one for Best New American Play. Mr. Lee also won the John Gassner Award, given out by the Outer Critics Circle. The play then transferred to Broadway, where it ran a month and was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Play.
When, in 2008, the Signature Theatre Company decided to devote a season to the legacy of the Negro Ensemble Company, it restagedSummer. The production, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, once again won a host of honors, this time from the Audelco Awards.
At that time, Mr. Lee hadn't had a New York production since 1991, when Manhattan Theatre Club staged his Black Eagles, about black fighter pilots in Italy in World War II. Other plays by Mr. Lee included Ground People, The War Party and Colored People's Time.
Leslie Earl Lee was born Nov. 6, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, PA. He studied English and biology at the University of Pennsylvania. For a time, he worked as a hospital medical technician and took on various other medical positions. In the mid-1960s, however, he began to study playwriting at Villanova University.
One of nine children, he is survived by a brother and three sisters
Arnold R. Pinkney Dies at 83; Steered 1984 Jesse Jackson Run
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Arnold R. Pinkney and his wife, Betty, after voting in 1971 in what was the first of his two bids to become Cleveland’s mayor.United Press International
“There are always more slaves than slave masters,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson roared in a speech in Selma, Ala., early in his 1984 presidential campaign. “We can win! We got master’s degrees in disappointment and Ph.D.s in how to overcome!”
The crowd’s ecstatic response to Mr. Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist who had never held elective office, underlined one of the strengths of his effort to be considered a credible challenger for the Democratic nomination and potentially the first black president of the United States.
Another strength was a team of professionals doing the groundwork of mobilizing voters, led by Mr. Jackson’s campaign manager, Arnold R. Pinkney, who died on Monday in Cleveland at 83.
Though his efforts fell short in votes, Mr. Pinkney was instrumental in rallying minorities, the poor and the disenfranchised to Mr. Jackson’s cause. Mr. Jackson, defying expectations, emerged from a crowded field to finish third in the race for the nomination behind former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Senator Gary Hart.
In managing the Jackson campaign, Mr. Pinkney likened his goal to one political aides of an earlier generation had set in persuading voters to see Dwight D. Eisenhower as not only the victorious Army commander of World War II but also a potential president who could manage the government in peacetime.
“Somebody sold him as a politician,” Mr. Pinkney told The Los Angeles Times. “Our job is to make that transition for Jackson.”
Mr. Pinkney brought to the campaign a seasoned understanding of both political success and failure. In 1967 he worked to elect Carl Stokes the first black mayor of a large American city, Cleveland (a job Mr. Pinkney himself later sought twice). The next year he managed the successful campaign of Mr. Stokes’s brother, Louis, to become the first black member of Congress from Ohio. Mr. Pinkney helped run many campaigns of both black and white politicians, including President Jimmy Carter’s unsuccessful re-election bid in 1980.
It was hearing the speech of a white politician on the radio in 1948 when he was a teenager that sparked Mr. Pinkney’s devotion to politics, prompting him to discard his parents’ affection for Republicans in favor of Democrats.
In the speech, Hubert H. Humphrey, then the young mayor of Minneapolis and a rising star in national politics, was imploring delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to endorse equal rights for blacks. Mr. Humphrey — who went on to become a United States senator of Minnesota and Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president — delivered the call with such vigor that Southern segregationists stalked out of the hall, and the party.
Twenty-four years later, Mr. Pinkney was Mr. Humphrey’s deputy campaign manager in a race to win the Democratic presidential nomination for the second time and unseat the man who had defeated Mr. Humphrey in 1968, Richard M. Nixon.
The relationship between Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Pinkney deepened as they traveled from primary to primary, and after Mr. Humphrey, then a senator again, lost the California primary, he publicly promised that if his campaign revived and he won the general election, he would bring Mr. Pinkney into his administration.
“It was the greatest moment of my life,” Mr. Pinkney told The Plain Dealer in Cleveland in 1997, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Humphrey went on to lose the nomination to Senator George S. McGovern.
Last week, Mr. Jackson said of Mr. Pinkney, “With his passing, a huge part of history goes with him.”
He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on Jan. 6, 1931. His father died three months before he finished high school, so he worked in steel mills to help his family make ends meet.
He graduated from Albion College in Michigan, where he won letters in football, track, baseball and basketball. During a stint in the Army, he played baseball with major leaguers. Paul O’Dea, a scout for the Cleveland Indians, told him that he had a shot at making the big leagues by his late 20s, but advised him to go to law school instead. “Your race needs more lawyers than baseball players,” Mr. Pinkney recalled Mr. O’Dea saying.
He took the advice and attended what is now Case Western Reserve University School of Law, but he dropped out for financial reasons. He then became one of the first black agents hired by the Prudential Insurance Company of America and later opened a successful insurance agency. As a civil rights activist, he led a membership drive for the N.A.A.C.P. and joined the picketing of a Cleveland supermarket that had refused to hire blacks.
He began his political career by helping out on local campaigns for judges, then volunteered for Carl Stokes’s mayoral campaign. Louis Stokes tapped him to be his paid campaign manager in 1968. Mr. Pinkney was later president of the Cleveland Board of Education and twice sought the city’s mayoralty, losing in a three-man race in 1971 and again in 1975. After the second defeat, he moved to Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb.
Mr. Jackson said he had chosen Mr. Pinkney to run his 1984 campaign because he was experienced in national campaigns as a “voice of pragmatism.” When he took over, Mr. Pinkney set about righting a campaign that was listing: Field offices had not been set up, phones were not being answered, and Mr. Jackson was often showing up late for appearances.
He also had to contend with problems outside his control. The Jackson forces were buoyed when Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the black separatist Nation of Islam, announced his support. But then a recording surfaced in which Mr. Farrakhan made remarks widely interpreted as anti-Semitic. Amid a storm of outrage, Mr. Pinkney helped draft a statement calling Mr. Farrakhan’s words “reprehensible.”
Another challenge came when Mr. Jackson made diplomatic forays to Latin America, meeting with Nicaragua’s leftist leaders and leftist rebels in El Salvador to try to steer them toward peace and winning the release of more than 20 political prisoners in Cuba. Mr. Pinkney worried that with the race for the nomination nearing its end, Mr. Jackson was absent, squandering a chance to attract maximum attention on domestic issues at a crucial time. In his absence, The Washington Post said, Mr. Pinkney would “look after his interests.”
Mr. Jackson unsuccessfully sought the nomination again in 1988 with Gerald F. Austin as his campaign manager.
Mr. Pinkney’s death was announced by his family. His survivors include his wife, Betty, and their daughter, Traci.
Mr. Pinkney liked to say the changes in America that led to Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008 began with Carl Stokes’s victory in Cleveland four decades earlier. On the night of Mr. Obama’s victory, Mr. Pinkney told a crowd of celebrators that blacks could no longer justifiably refuse to fight in foreign wars for a country that treated them as second-class citizens.
“This wipes all that out,” he said. “No one can accuse the country of that again. It’s a magnificent night.”
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A political strategist and civil rights activist who helped elect Ohio's first black congressman and managed Jesse Jackson's unsuccessful 1984 presidential campaign has died. Arnold Pinkney was 84.
His wife, Betty Pinkney, says he died Monday at a Cleveland hospice after a recent hospitalization.
Arnold Pinkney had a long career in Democratic political campaigns including the 1968 campaign of Louis Stokes, who became Ohio's first black member of Congress. He also advised Jackson, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes and Gov. Richard Celeste.
He was special adviser to the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, which plans a special recognition on Feb. 19. Caucus President Alicia Reece says he leaves a legacy of public service.
Pinkney was co-founder of Pinkney-Perry Insurance Agency, Ohio's oldest and largest minority-owned insurance company.
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Arnold Pinkney (January 6, 1931, Youngstown, Ohio - January 13, 2014, Cleveland, Ohio) was a political strategist and civil rights activist who helped elect Ohio's first black congressman and managed Jesse Jackson's unsuccessful 1984 presidential campaign.
Pinkney was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on January 6, 1931. His father died three months before he finished high school, so he worked in steel mills to help his family make ends meet.
Pinkney graduated from Albion College in Michigan, where he won letters in football, track, baseball and basketball. During a stint in the Army, he played baseball with major leaguers. Paul O’Dea, a scout for the Cleveland Indians, told him that he had a shot at making the big leagues by his late 20s, but advised him to go to law school instead. “Your race needs more lawyers than baseball players,” Mr. Pinkney recalled Mr. O’Dea saying.
Pinkney took the advice and attended what is now Case Western Reserve University School of Law, but he dropped out for financial reasons. He then became one of the first black agents hired by the Prudential Insurance Company of America and later opened a successful insurance agency. As a civil rights activist, he led a membership drive for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) and joined the picketing of a Cleveland supermarket that had refused to hire blacks.
Pinkney began his political career by helping out on local campaigns for judges, then volunteered for Carl Stokes’s mayoral campaign. Louis Stokes tapped him to be his paid campaign manager in 1968. Pinkney was later president of the Cleveland Board of Education and twice sought the city’s mayoralty, losing in a three-man race in 1971 and again in 1975. After the second defeat, he moved to Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb.
Mr. Jackson said he had chosen Mr. Pinkney to run his 1984 campaign because he was experienced in national campaigns as a “voice of pragmatism.”
Arnold Pinkney had a long career in Democratic political campaigns including the 1968 campaign of Louis Stokes, who became Ohio's first black member of Congress. He also advised Jackson, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes and Gov. Richard Celeste.
He was special adviser to the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and was co-founder of Pinkney-Perry Insurance Agency, Ohio's oldest and largest minority-owned insurance company.
Roy Campbell Jr., who carried the soulful swagger of hard-bop trumpet into the jazz avant-garde, of which he became a pillar, died on Jan. 9 at his home in the Bronx. He was 61.
The cause was hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, said his sister, Valerie Campbell Morris, his only immediate survivor.
Mr. Campbell was a proud heir to the legacy of 1960s free jazz as established by trailblazers like the saxophonist Albert Ayler, the pianist Cecil Taylor and the trumpeter Don Cherry, one of Mr. Campbell’s idols. Combining a pugnacious sound with an open-minded approach, Mr. Campbell worked with an array of colleagues in that lineage. He was a fixture at the Vision Festival in New York, an annual celebration of avant-gardism, and recorded his most recent album, “Akhenaten Suite” (Aum Fidelity), in concert there in 2007.
As a composer and bandleader he favored strong rhythm and folkloric texture, putting those elements together in Tazz, an energetic quartet featuring piano, bass and drums, and Pyramid Trio, with the bassist William Parker and a succession of drummers. “Ethnic Stew and Brew,” a Pyramid Trio album released on Delmark in 2001, was one of Mr. Campbell’s most critically acclaimed.
For more than 20 years, off and on, he also stood front and center in Other Dimensions in Music, a ruggedly spontaneous band with Daniel Carter on reeds and flute (and sometimes trumpet), Mr. Parker on bass and Rashid Bakr on drums. He held a similar role as a member of the Nu Band, and in ensembles led by Mr. Parker, the pianist Matthew Shipp and the guitarist Marc Ribot.
Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 29, 1952, and raised from the age of 2 in the Bronx. His mother, Erna Arene Forte Campbell, worked at P.S. 21 in the Bronx; his father was a Wall Street communications specialist and a trumpeter himself. Roy Jr. began his musical training on piano and also learned flute and violin.
The trumpet became his focus during his senior year in high school, and from then on he moved quickly. Through the nonprofit music-outreach organization Jazzmobile, he studied with Lee Morgan, Kenny Dorham and Howard McGhee, assertive trumpeters from different points on the bebop spectrum. He majored in trumpet at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, where he also studied theory and composition with the esteemed multi-reedist Yusef Lateef, who died last month at 93.
Mr. Campbell formed his first band, Spectrum, at 20, and began playing widely as a sideman, notably with Ensemble Muntu, a fixture on New York’s 1970s loft-jazz scene. He released his debut album, “New Kingdom” (Delmark), in 1992, around the time he ended a two-year stint in the Netherlands; its opening track was “I Remember Lee,” a pledge of allegiance to Morgan. (On his following album, Mr. Campbell would include a waltz titled“Booker’s Lament,” after another influence, the trumpeter Booker Little.)
Beyond his affinities with hard bop and free jazz, Mr. Campbell worked in a range of styles including funk, hip-hop and reggae. And he was an encouraging mentor to younger trumpeters, both informally and in his capacity as a founder of the stylistically broad Festival of New Trumpet Music, which he established with Dave Douglas in 2003.
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Roy Sinclair Campbell, Jr. (September 29, 1952 – January 9, 2014) was anAmericantrumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, although he also performedrhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career.
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952,[1] Campbell was raised in New York. At the age of fifteen he began learning to play trumpet and soon studied at the Jazz Mobile program along with Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan and Joe Newman.[2]Throughout the 1960s, still unacquainted with the avant-garde movement, Campbell performed in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College. From the 1970s onwards he performed primarily within the context of free jazz, spending some of this period studying with Yusef Lateef.[3]
Roy Sinclair Campbell, Jr. (September 29, 1952 – January 9, 2014) was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, although he also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career.
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At the age of fifteen he began learning to play trumpet and soon studied at the Jazz Mobile program along with Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, and Joe Newman. Throughout the 1960s, still unacquainted with the avant-garde movement, Campbell performed in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College. From the 1970s onwards, he performed primarily within the context of free jazz, spending some of this period studying with Yusef Lateef.
In the early 1990s, Campbell moved to the Netherlands and performed regularly with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry. In addition to leading his own groups, he performed with Yo La Tengo, William Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Matthew Shipp, and other improvisors. Upon returning to the United States, he began leading his group Other Dimensions In Music and also formed the Pyramid Trio, a pianoless trio formed with William Parker. He performed regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.
Roy Campbell, Jr., died in January 2014 of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at the age of 61.
The discography of Roy Campbell, Jr. reads as follows:
As leader
New Kingdom (1992, Delmark)
La Tierra del Fuego (1994, Delmark)
Communion (1995, Silkheart)
Ancestral Homeland (1998, No More)
Ethnic Stew and Brew (2001, Delmark)
It's Krunch Time (2001, Thirsty Ear)
Akhenaten Suite (2008, Aum Fidelity)
with Other Dimensions in Music
Other Dimensions in Music (Silkheart, 1990)
Now! (Aum Fidelity, 1988)
Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time (Aum Fidelity, 2002)
Live at the Sunset, Paris (Marge, 2007)
Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011)
with The Nu Band (Roy Campbell Jr., Mark Whitecage, Joe Fonda, Lou Grassi)
Live at the Bop Shop (Clean Feed, 2001)
Live (Konnex, 2005)
The Dope and the Ghost (Not Two, 2007)
Lower East Side Blues (Porter Records, 2009)
Live in Paris (No Business, 2010)
Relentlessness Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2011)
with Tribute to Albert Ayler (Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Warren Smith)
Live at The Dynamo (Marge, 2009)
As sideman
with Jemeel Moondoc
The Evening of the Blue Men (Muntu, 1979)
New York Live! (Cadence, 1981)
The Intrepid Live in Poland (Poljazz, 1981)
The Athens Concert (Praxis, 1982)
Konstanze's Delight - Live 1981 (Soul Note, 1983)
Spirit House (Eremite, 2000)
Live in Paris (Cadence, 2003)
Just Grew Orchestra Live at the Vision Festival (Ayler, 2003)
with Saheb Sarbib
Live at the Public Theatre (Cadence, 1981)
Aisha (Cadence, 1981)
with Billy Bang
Live at Carlos 1 (Soul Note, 1986)
with William Parker
Flowers Grow in my Room (Centering, 1994)
Sunrise in the Tone World (Aum Fidelity, 1997)
Mayor of Punkville (Aum Fidelity, 2000)
Raincoat in the River (Eremite, 2001)
Mass for the Healing of the World (Black Saint, 2003)
Spontaneous (Splasc(h), 2003)
Fractured Dimensions (FMP, 2003)
For Percy Heath (Victo, 2006)
Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)
with Ehran Elisha
Sweet Empathy (Cadence, 1995)
The Kicker (CIMP, 1998)
Lowe Down Suite (CIMP, 1999)
with Peter Brotzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet
From Valley to Valley (Eremite, 1998)
with Matthew Shipp
Strata (hatOLOGY, 1998)
Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
with Rob Brown
Jumping off the Page (No More, 2000)
The Big Picture (Marge, 2004)
with Alan Silva
& The Sounds Visions Orchestra (Eremite, 2001)
with Yuko Fujiyama
Re-entry (CIMP, 2001)
with Steve Lehman
Structural Fire (CIMP, 2001)
Camouflage (CIMP, 2002)
with Peter Brotzmann Tentet + 2
Short Visit to Nowhere (Okkadisk, 2002)
Broken English (Okkadisk, 2002)
with Maneri Ensemble
Going to Church (Aum Fidelity, 2002)
with Khan Jamal
Balafon Dance (CIMP, 2002)
with Kevin Norton
The Dream Catcher (CIMP, 2003)
with Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun (Matador, 2003)
with Exuberance
The Other Shore (Boxholder, 2003)
Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2004)
with Steve Sewell
Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers (CIMP, 2003)
Rivers of Sound Ensemble - News from the Mystic Auricle (Not Two, 2008)
with Burton Greene
Isms Out (CIMP, 2004)
with Dennis Gonzalez
Nile River Suite (Daagnim, 2004)
with El-P
High Water (Thirsty Ear, 2004)
with Whit Dickey
Coalescence (Clean Feed, 2004)
In a Heartbeat (Clean Feed, 2005)
Sacred Ground (Clean Feed, 2006)
with Marc Ribot
Spiritual Unity (Pi recordings, 2005)
with Charles Tyler
Live at Sweet Basil vol. 1 & 2 (1984) (Bleu Regard, 2007)
with Garrison Fewell
Variable Density Sound Orchestra (Creative Nation Music, 2009)
