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Glen Moore about Zbigniew Seifert

At first I thought was a string quartet playing. Then I heard him play a gig in Avignon with Toto Blanc in 1976.  Paul McCandless and I got together with him the next day and Paul and Zbiggy were such a great inspiration to one another that we invited Zbiggy to come to the US and make the “Violin” recording with Oregon. On my piece “Flageolet” he had suggestions for the improvisation that were so advanced that it took me a couple of years to figure them out.  There is still a “Best of Oregon” album that has a 15 minute free piece from that recording.

Zbiggy mailed me his recording “Man In The Light” which I played for Benny Wallace. Benny loved it because Zbiggy had played saxophone and was able to play most of Trane’s licks on the violin.

When I had the opportunity to record a solo for Electra/Asylum, I invited Zbigniev and David Darling along with Jan Hammer to form a super group. Zbigniev conducted all of the pieces (free and written) he played on, taking all of us to new levels of possibility.

He was one of the most inspiring creative people I ever played with.