A Note from Your Mad Discographer:

      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

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Music Research

The Deep Digging;   The Incantations;   The Inspirations;    All These Words...

The Personal

"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 Magazine. 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.

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The Personal...

The Rick Lopez Eventography [May 3, 1953-Present] A relatively complete listing of my involvement in the arts. Music — Theatre — Prose Publishing — Performance — Productions ::: photo by michael graham :::

A Vivid Memoir of the landmark concert by Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul at Columbia University's Miller Theatre on May 25th, 2007. An outdated Resumé Six Credits for One five-page English Comp. paper at University-Mart. February '06

LUCILLE, A Reverential Journal of the Care of the Beloved Hag [1999-2001] An over-the-edge accounting of my life spanning January 2000 through June of 2001. My Grandmother dying here with us.

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

Samuel Beckett Eulogy [1990] aaahhh... Sammy. He lives on in all the corners of my head.

LOVETORN [1987] A tragedy in an indeterminate number of acts. A true story. You may as well read it.

An Interview [2000] + The Game of Twenty-and-Then-Some-Questions

Time Stops photos, Art Becker / text, Rick Lopez [1998] "...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..." "...Readers [will] recall its poetry, punch, and photos long after they put it down..."

The Art of the Baseball Card [1994] A snappy little illustrated essay written for an Erie Art Museum exhibit in the Summer of '94.

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.