From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, I was a musician. After several years working as the drummer of a Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers-style band called ‘Better Smials’ that played in the Boston area, I began studying jazz percussion with the late great Berklee College of Music Professor and world-renowned drummer Alan Dawson. I then joined Warren Senders’ jazz ensemble ‘Antigravity’.
In the first recording linked below, Antigravity — with group leader and chief composer Warren Senders on bass, Phil Scarff on tenor saxophone, Bob Pilkington on trombone, Doug Wood on guitar, and Gordon Hahn on drums — plays Senders’ original ‘Cherry’, Charles Mingus’s ‘Reincarnation of a Lovebird’, Senders original ‘Sita Sita’, and Senders original ‘Lovers Desire.’ The music begins after a brief introduction by the Boston area jazz institution, WBUR radio host Steve Ellman. The music was recorded circa 1981. The WBUR broadcast is from 3 January 1982.
The second, third, and fourth recordings are radio broadcasts in which parts of an ‘Antigravity’ concert at the Berkeley School of Music concert hall circa 1983 were presented. The first of the following segments of the concert features a Warren Senders’ composition played by an orchestra set around the Antigravity core ensemble, featuring the group members as noted above. In addition, the great American saxophonist George Garzone is featured as a guest performer in this first composition. I, on drums, and bassist Warren Senders accompany Garzone.
RECORDING 1: Antigravity 1981 Demo Tape
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8l99odt2effgycn/AABZ0hKmhNAgmxOi3mwXBfdua?dl=0
RECORDING 2: 1983 Antigravity Concert with George Garzone, Part 1
RECORDING 3: 1983 Antigravity Concert with George Garzone, Part 2
RECORDING 4: 1983 Antigravity Concert with George Garzone, Part 3
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About the Author –
Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000(Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.