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The VORTEX

How to Build a World-view;
an Epistemology;
Some Idea of
Where the Hell We Might Be.

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A Note from Your Mad Discographer, on The Deep Digging; The Incantations; The Inspirations; All These Words...

 I’ve been deeply involved in the arts since the mid-’70s, but I’ve never known how to monetize my talents. I’ve never had a hint
 of financial savvy; I am—like a clueless child—almost entirely dependent at the age of 69 on next week’s pay-check; and I am
 “unaffiliated” and on my own here. I also get constant feedback from people all over the world who’ve been telling me, lo these
 many decades, that the work I do is invaluable... And so I’m reaching out.
 There are expenses I constantly struggle to meet: website hosting, an Adobe account for the software that makes the website
 and book layouts possible, subscriptions to newspaper archives, and numerous other expenses. Then there are the absurd number
 of hours I feel compelled to spend gathering and organizing and formatting the information that I find.
 I receive a Social Security check that meets just about half of my living expenses, and I drive a tiny school bus part-time for
 a daycare center that barely covers the rest. So if you appreciate the work that I do and are willing and able to help a boy out
 with any amount, either one-time or monthly, I would be most grateful. —RL




Music Research
The Personal


This Place will forever be under HEAVY construction. At present you will find here:

Sessionographies : : : Attempting a complete historical arc.

[Official releases, unissued sessions, Broadcast and Private recordings, and other media + all known play-dates.]

Marilyn!


Marilyn Crispell

(Latest Update May 18, 2024)
Mary


Mary Halvorson

(Latest Update Jun 20, 2025)
Marco!

Marco Eneidi


Memorial / Homage

(Latest Update Apr 4, 2025)
Sam!


Marco!

The Complete Studio RivBea

Village Voice Ads (1972 to 1978)

Sam!
The Trio
(Rivers/Holland/Altschul)

A Memoir / Travelogue

Columbia University, NYC
May 25th, 2007.
Willi'm!


William Parker

(Latest Update Apr 29, 2023;
Major Rebuild coming—2024/25, maybe?)
Penck!

A.R. Penck LP Discography

A William Parker
Sub-document.
Glenn!


Glenn Spearman

Memorial / Homage

(Latest Jun 3, 2024)
David S.!


David S. Ware

Memorial / Homage

(Latest Update Mar 23, 2025)





“I want to point out the wonderful discographies that Rick Lopez has produced. ... Treasure troves of information,
some of the finest scholarship available on the internet today.”
 —Tom Hull / Village Voice


“A sessionography is the most comprehensive listing of all, trying to document all known sessions, recorded or not,
of the artist. Rick Lopez has the most exciting examples of sessionographies that I’m aware of currently on the Web.”

 —Joe Moudry / Saturn Web

The Marilyn Crispell Sessionography was excerpted and linked on Evan Parker’s High Tide, a multimedia adaptation
of BBC Radio 3’s “Jazz on 3” released on CD-ROM by BBC London and included with Issue #200 of The WIRE.

An essay concerning research involved in the Sam Rivers Sessionography was published in a book about one of the premier
jazz venues in Europe, BimHUIS 25: Stories of Twenty-Five Years..., edited by Kevin Whitehead.

The discographies and sessionographies have been referenced in the revised edition of the Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Links, notations, mentions, and references to these documents have appeared on recently released recordings and in print
articles in The WIRE (UK), Coda (Canada), Signal to Noise, and many other publications.




The Personal


arts
The Rick Lopez Eventography [May 3, 1953 to NearPresent]

A relatively complete listing of my involvement in the arts.
Music — Theatre — Prose — Publishing — Performance — Productions

The C.V.

::: photo by art becker :::


arts Higherglyphics [An abandoned Work, 2013]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

Text for Three Sections of The Erie Art Museum Annex Stairwell Project by Todd Scalise



arts The 51-Volume Collected Works of Frank Novel [2006]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

Six Credits for One five-page English Comp. paper at University-Mart. February 2006

::: photo by fred scutron, cropped :::

Lucille! LUCILLE, A Reverential Journal of the Care of the Beloved Hag [1999-2001]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

An over-the-edge accounting of my life while my Grandmother was here dying with us.



index Baseball & the 10,000 Things [1994-95]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

Hardly about baseball at all. Mostly a state-of-mind document, of which it has been said:
“Superb.”   “Eclectic and brilliant.”   “A deconstructionist wet dream.”
“Just the coolest goddamn thing I’ve seen in a long, long time.”


Sammy!
Samuel Beckett Eulogy [1990]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

Aaahhh... Sammy. He lives on in all the corners of my head.



...
LOVETORN [1987]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

A brief tragedy in an indeterminate number of acts. A true story. You may as well read it.



Me!
The C.V. bit. [2000]

An Interview [2000]

+ The Game of Twenty-and-Then-Some-Questions



baseball???
Time Stops photos, Art Becker / text, Rick Lopez [1998]

REMOVED for publication April, 2025.

“Snaps the game to life in a grand, visceral, sense-evoking way.”
A horsehide and lumber symphony of prose dedicated to the beauty of the game.”
“Beautiful.”

baseball!
The Art of the Baseball Card [1994]

A snappy little illustrated essay written for an Erie Art Museum exhibit in the Summer 1994.





...
HARD BOIL [1985]
“As real as a blood-drained face and a drop of blood trickling down the ear.”
“Short zappy bits of prose that leave lingering nightmares.”
The megaviolence part of the show.
Not for the faint of heart.




Main page update June 22, 2025 / Various individual documents updated almost daily.


Rick Lopez