However, as a very spiritual and life-long family man, Jodie has chosen to remain in Chicago for most of his career. That stay-at-home spirituality is important in the creative process and is self-evident in the music he makes, whether his own compositions or his improvisations of others. Feeling this deeply, Jodie has dedicated this album to his devoted wife, Juanita.

...He was born in Chicago on the second of February, 1932, and attended Wendell Phillips High School. That's important because musical cliques in Chicago are formed in high school, but Jodie is as at home with avant garde musicians as he is with the boppers or accompanying a vocalist.

ŠJoJuan Publishing Company 2001

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