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> * Carl Glatzel started a discussion on a news article:
> Which three jazz artists take up the better part of your music collection? (137)
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> > For more modern jazz...my top three would be Pat Metheny, Weather
> > Report, and Yellowjackets.
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> * Carl Glatzel started a discussion on a news article:
> Bring out your sad songs! Bring out your sad songs! (24)
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> > I've always loved "Canto Triste" by Edu Lobo as sung by Lani Hall on
> > A&M. Also, heres one of mine ( with lyrics by Marissa dodge ) sung by
> > the marvelous Greta Matassa:
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> > "My Museum " you can hear it on my website
www.philkellymusic.com ..or
> > on the Origin Records website ..or on my page at this website:
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> * Greg Thomas started a discussion on a news article:
> I've launched a column at All About Jazz with the theme Jazz and Race. I'd appreciate members of the Jazz Friends group reading and commenting on my first-person essay, "Jazz vs Racism." Thanks. (3)
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> > Regarding your article, I think the "basic terms" definition of racism
> > is problematic. It minimizes the core issues that give racism its sting:
> > power, resource allocation, material benefit and material detriment,
> > presumptions of reasonableness, veracity and virtue and the lack thereof
> > that form the context of institutionalized policy. Aside from the
> > systematic and structural aspects of racism, the word becomes worse than
> > a meaningless cliche, disingenuous in its redundancy. We already have
> > words like, "bigotry", "prejudice", "stereotype" and even
> > "discrimination" to clearly describe the attitudes and individual acts
> > to which common or colloquial use ascribes the fancy term "racism".
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> > People fling the theoretical definition of racism that involves power
> > and resource allocation - or some crude rendering thereof - about
> > without qualitifaction. This is unfair both to audience members that
> > haven't bought into the theoretical premises behind the defintion and to
> > those that understand and accept those premises. Nevertheless, I find
> > that it is unfruitful to talk about racism in "basic terms"; it would be
> > more constructive to simply talk about bigotry, prejudice, stereotypes
> > and discrimination, over which there is less to contend in pursuit of
> > control of the nomenclature. If racism is simply a matter of cross looks
> > and hurt feelings rather than a matter of the exercise of power to
> > define the context and direction in which material resources flow, it's
> > a masturbatory exercise to even talk about "racism" at all. Some other
> > concept needs to be discussed that encompasses the real crux of the
> > matter.
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> > That being said, I will make a bee-line for the nearest exit from the
> > mine-field of "Jazz versus Racism."
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