Brotzman Kowald Cyrille Trio, Somerville Theater

It was winter 1984-85 I believe. We used to hold events at the old Somerville Theater in Davis Square thanks to manager Lenny DiFranza's adventurousness. One Saturday brought this great trio of improvisors into the theater. Their work is chronicled on many FMP albums out of Berlin and we played a lot of this stuff back then on WMFO, the little Tufts radio station. I shot a roll of fotos using a tiny Minox travel camera and had the film printed to a contact sheet. Chris Rich, who arranged the musicians trip up from NYC saw the contact proof and said it sucked, so I filed it away rather than print any. Another mistake of letting others' hasty opinions squelch your work.