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Music is wonderful, for most people, John, but I have to confess that I am tone deaf and have never been much of a fan of music. I know it is strange, but then I am strange in many ways. I am the only person I know who is not into music much at all -- I love the local classical music station, we are lucky to have such a station here in Tidewater VA, but even it is just background for my driving and I do not listen while at home. Thanks for trying to clue me in, I imagine this is all just great, but I cannot get into it. In solidarity nevertheless, Wythe > On June 27, 2020 at 9:44 PM John A Imani <johnaima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Comrade, > > Watching just an awesome recital by the couple > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA . Banjos with a "Black Lives > Matter" sign as background. They promised to stream it for a few weeks. The > first part is a Jazz trio that did not interest me as I came to hear Bela. > Me and V have seen him at least twice, maybe 3,4 times. > > If only interested in this part its easy to navigate to it just move > cursor to almost the end that isn't. Their performance is maybe 25 - 30 mins > long. > > They do a song on the indigenous. She sings one in Chinese that she > learned during an extended stay in Sichuan. They duet on a Hank, Sr tune. > Sing an Abbey Lincoln > https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Abbey+Lincoln+ tune > introduced by pointing at her activism. Last thing "Take me to Harlem" with > great lyrics but, I think, musically missing something. Maybe a gospel choir. > > Comrade, I am far from a musicologist but know what I like when I hear it. > > In the 60's the soundtrack to our lives was cause and effect of our > struggles, protests, movements. There must be a music of this movement. > Maybe musics. But Fleck's incursion of his politics into this Allegheny > world sounds a tocsin for others to follow. Not just bluegrass but C&W, > folk, rap, R&B, classical, jazz and blues. > > We must find, encourage and support our troubadors-to-be. I know one > personally. Devin Hoff is a world-class bassist > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Hoff who shifts through the varied music > scenes listed above with grace, fluidity, mastery of himself and his > instrument, bass. Even better is his politics. Even better is the man. He > currently lives and will soon be active again in NYC, hopefully the C19thing > will be beaten even though it is 'managed' by a rudy-poot nincompoop. > > But as for Bela Fleck and Abigail Wishburn's presentation all that was > missing, besides the gospel choir, was Doc and Merle Watson but, alas, both > are gone. > > > Freihofer's Jazz Fest: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Skidmore Jazz > Institute Alumni Trio > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA > > JAI > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
