Dread Clampitt
Balder Saunders, a Georgia Tech engineering student, played trumpet in Back Azimuth. Back azimuth involves navigating by your wake. Backtracking. Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky character navigates that manner, while Plains Indians do things backwards. Charlie Parker taught himself to transpose angles after woodshedding in the Ozarks. Saunders' father had a Jamaica-traveling coworker. The man told Saunders' father, who had a bluegrass-playing son... read full bio