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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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That was an interesting piece from Mario......escapades et al!! Accomplished
a ton of stuff long before I was born. I last saw Maurice Concessio perform
in 1982.......and Sacru too around that time. I'm sure Eugene could tell us
many more stories of City Kitchen and the Goans that hung around that place.
The section on Louis Armstrong caught my eye and I quote from the article
verbatim:
While we were making small talk with this musical legend, who
was sipping some adult beverage while he wiped the sweat off
his forehead, a nearby reporter asked him, "Mr. Armstrong,
can you explain jazz?" The answer was a classic, "Maan, if
you have to ask, you'll never know!"
I flipped out my copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz" by Alan
Axelrod Ph.D. (1999). The title to Chapter 1 is "If you have to ask, you'll
never know". I will quote the first two paragraphs of this chapter verbatim
:
QTE
They tell the story like this: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong had just finished a
set in a Harlem club patronized, as these places were in 1920s and '30s, by
well-heeled white nightclubbers. A soceity matron approached Satch and asked
him to "define jazz."
"Lady," he replied, mopping his brow with his trademark handkerchief, "if I
have to tell you, you'll never know."
End-QTE
Pray tell us what is going on........is MG referring to meeting the legend
in Bombay in 1964 or NewYork in the 1920s........MG appears to have got to
Harlem long-long before I got there..........or is this another bout of
"pulling wool over our eyes". Just asking........
Hey.....Have you heard Jazzy Joe - our very own Goan sax virtuoso??
- b
