Tony Dagradi is best known as the leader ofthe New Orleans modern-jazz group AstralProject, which he has made his life project.Yet he has had several other important threadsin his forty-year career: serving a series ofinformal apprenticeships with experimentaljazz, soul, and rhythm and blues artists in the1970s, playing, touring, and recording withProfessor Longhair, 1978-80, doing the samewith the Carla Bley Band, 1980-85, partneringwith the ...