<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>He congratulated me, really I suppose Johnny Griffin, for little John's comment reported to him, as made to Archie Shepp <br></p><p>-- "the world might be in a terrible state, but that's no reason to take it out on the music!" <br></p><p><br></p><p>Taking it out on the music is the very opposite of what Bob did, and terrible as things might be it's a big thing to enhance a capacity among people to tolerate better what shouldn't be, but regrettably is. And indeed to contribute to and increase what should be. We had little immediate contact, but I am grateful to and for the man,</p><p><br></p><p>Robert R. Calder<br></p></div></body></html>