If you have the opportunity to listent to Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Jack Wilkins….you are in for a treat if you haven’t yet!
Comment by Hugh Breyer — April 14, 2011 @ 10:20 pm
A very good deed, Lou! thanks.
HB — do you have a link for the Pass, Montgomery group?
Paddy, can you recommend any reading on that? I’m looking on Amazon (searching for “jazz,” “socialism,” and variations thereof), and all I’m getting is stuff about underground jazz scenes in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Although I do see that Robin D.G. Kelley has some promising-looking stuff.
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
If you have the opportunity to listent to Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Jack Wilkins….you are in for a treat if you haven’t yet!
Comment by Hugh Breyer — April 14, 2011 @ 10:20 pm
A very good deed, Lou! thanks.
HB — do you have a link for the Pass, Montgomery group?
Comment by senecal — April 15, 2011 @ 2:58 am
Were any of the jazzbos involved in socialist politics?
Comment by Ismael — April 15, 2011 @ 4:06 am
Ismael, Jazz has always been linked to socialist and anti-racist policies.
Comment by Paddy Apling — April 16, 2011 @ 4:09 pm
Paddy, can you recommend any reading on that? I’m looking on Amazon (searching for “jazz,” “socialism,” and variations thereof), and all I’m getting is stuff about underground jazz scenes in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Although I do see that Robin D.G. Kelley has some promising-looking stuff.
Comment by Ismael — April 16, 2011 @ 7:58 pm