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A selection giving a smidgen from the career of Tim Green. Tim Green, saxophonist, educator, activist, and executive, played lyrically and soulfully across a wide range of musics: Wholly Improvisational; Afrobeat; Bebop; Indian; Reggae; Funk; Blues; Rock; ... He was also General Manager of New Orleans' community-radio station WWOZ and of the city's radio-station for the unsighted, WRBH. His earnings as a touring musician with Peter Gabriel and Stevie Nicks sustained WRBH in the middle 1990s. Tim passed in Augjust 2014. Today, February 6, 2020, the City of New Orleans, led by Council-member Jason Williams' offices, is proclaiming for the firth year (1994, 2015, 2017 and 2018 the prior years) Tim Green Day in the city.

A movement is afoot is to have the City name the block of Magazine Street in which WRBH sits Tim Green Place. Such a step would be precedent for naming other blocks of New Orleans after musicians and other artists beloved around the world--Sidney Bechet, Dr. John, Mahalia Jackson, Memphis Minnie, the Boswell Sisters, George Herriman, Allen Toussaint, ... for just some. Such naming would be most welcome to tourists visiting New Orleans.

About the tracks. Tim played with Peter Gabriel's large and diverse band at the 25th anniversary of Woodstock, 1994; Peter thanked him particularly in closing the show. The group Shringar brough Aashish Khan together with Tim, Andrew McLean, jason Marsalis, Michael Skinkus, and Alan Frost of New Orleans; the excerpt is from a show at Snug Harbor in 2003. Mike Dillon and James Singleton were among the stalwart improvisational musicians who played with Tim over decades; Jonathan Freilich, Helen Gillet, David Torkanowsky, AuroraMark Bingham are among many more. Anders Osborne and Kirk Joseph and Tim toured with several drummers over a 13-years-span. You can hear how much Tim meant to Anders and the likewise great Johnny and Deborah Vidacovich in their voicings of the poem all three wrote--'From Space', a track on Anders' 2016 album "Spacedust & Ocean Views".

Que viva Tim Green! Keep looking him up. Cyril Neville, another key bandmate of Tim's, informed Maryse and me of Tim's passing in August 2014. I later called Kidd Jordan to convey the sad news; Kidd said: "That hurts my heart." Paul Plimley of Canada, another superlative musician, was another one who brought up Tim Green whenever I mentioned music from New Orleans.

Photo is from a web-page about Tim by the very hard-working and gifted Jonathan Freilich. Jonathan wrote about Tim: 'He is interested in so much music and, has brought himself to a place where he can insert very creative ideas in almost any context without breaking the balance or excitement of a piece of music or its setting.' You can read Jonathan's interview with Tim at
jonathan-freilich.squarespace.com/frontpage/2011/7/23/interview-with-tim-green.html ,

Track 2--Roger Lewis recorded in October 2018, before WRBH named its building on Magasine Street after Tim Green, and Krik Joseph recorded on feb. 5, 2020, before the New Orleans City Council, led by Jason Williams and his office, proclaimed a Tim Green Day for the fourth year since 2014.