Mission Rebel No. 1 (a suite) is a work-in-progress.  The subject is the life of my father, Rev. Jesse James.

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A performance of the first section – of what is to ultimately be an evening-length piece – was presented as a livestream on June 11, 2021.  You can watch it here.

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This presentation was sponsored by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, which also supported the development of the work. 

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Additional support–material, logistic, and recollective–has come from:

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Aijai Anderson

Lunar Beckett

Landon Beckett

Linda John

Suzanne Lee

Regula Langemann

Lauren Post

Donald Washington

Mark Werlin

Linda Wilson

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Alex Cherian/Bay Area TV Archive

Paul Dresher/Independent Jazz Alliance/A Safe Place to Play

David Miller/ Clay Geerdes Archives

The Lost Church

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Archival footage provided by:

KPIX-TV

Oddball Films

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In memory of my mother, Dolores Lorraine Dulaney, and my father’s mother, Anna Mae Anderson, the two of whom never met on Earth.

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Jesse Joseph James

October 6, 1928 - May 31, 2005