David James

Mission Rebel No. 1 is a musical work that will have its premiere in September 2023.  The subject of this song cycle is the life of my father, Rev. Jesse James.

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This work has been under development for the last couple of years; the first work-in-progress performance was presented as a livestream on June 11, 2021.  You can watch it here.

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Subsequent work-in progress performances were presented in October 2022 and January 2023.

 

These presentations are sponsored by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, which has 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

 

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