The first thing you’re going to ask is, “How come I don’t know about this guy, Fred Katz???”  Personnel on this 1958 breakthrough album include Buddy Collette on flute, Billy Bean on guitar, Don Fagerquist on trumpet, Bob Enevoldsen on trombone, Jack Constanzo and Larry Bunker on percussion, Oscar-winning composer John Williams on piano. So how come you didn’t know about this incredible history-making album until now???

The obvious answer is, Fred Katz didn’t want you to know until now. Fred Katz is, like myself, a rather outspoken visitor from another dimension. He is nominally viewed as a Jewish Mystic, and is a high-school dropout anthropology professor at Cal State Fullerton, and an accomplished artist and musician at the very crux of creation, the edge of the event-horizon of jazz — he invented the jazz cello … but there’s more to the story than that … much, much more. Continue reading →