Bob (Cleve) Pozar with Bob James Trio, 1962

Here’s one for the outcats: little-seen footage of Bob (Cleve) Pozar with the Bob James Trio (Ron Brooks on bass) that suggests the influence of their ONCE Festival collaborations with avant-garde composers such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, & Roger Reynolds. Pozar plays drums, water bottle, & slide whistle. More details on that era from my 2008 interview with Pozar that focuses on his Cleve Solo Percussion album: “I worked several years as a percussionist with the ONCE festivals. ... The Ann Arbor ONCE festivals were really big, man. That was the center of 20th century music at that time in the United States. So I was exposed to enormous amounts of different techniques. I think I learned to bow cymbals from a piece that Roger Reynolds wrote for flute and percussion, which extended over to bowing my gongs. I learned to use knitting needles on cymbals from things that I was working out with Bob James at the time, who was also playing all the ONCE festivals. ... I played pieces that