
David James
composer. singer. guitarist.
Mission Rebel No. 1 is a multi-part musical work that will premiere in 2023. The subject is the life of my father, Rev. Jesse James.
A work-in-progress performance of Part One was presented as a livestream on June 11, 2021. You can watch it here.
Part Two is currently in development, and work-in progress performances will be presented throughout 2022 and 2023.
These presentations are sponsored by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, which has also supported the development of the work.
Additional support–material, logistic, and recollective–has come from:
Aijai Anderson
Lunar Beckett
Landon Beckett
Linda John
Suzanne Lee
Regula Langemann
Lauren Post
Donald Washington
Mark Werlin
Linda Wilson
Alex Cherian/Bay Area TV Archive
Paul Dresher/Independent Jazz Alliance/A Safe Place to Play
David Miller/ Clay Geerdes Archives
The Lost Church
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.
Jesse Joseph James
October 6, 1928 - May 31, 2005