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"Jazz speaks of life. The blues tell the stories of life’s difficulties and, if you will think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern jazz has contributed to this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning from the sounds of earth which flow through his instrument.
It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of ‘racial identity’ as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was sitting within their souls.
Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its powerful rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.
And now Jazz is exported to the world. For the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man."
MLK, Berlin Jazz Festival, 1964.

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Indy Jazz Fest

2 days ago

As word spreads through the jazz world that much loved saxophonist Jimmy Heath died today at age 93, friends and fans are celebrating the life of this gifted performer.
We’re proud to claim Jimmy Heath (Oct 25, 1926- Jan 19, 2020) as an Indy Jazz Fest musician. His life and career was a triumph over incarceration and addiction. The NEA Jazz Master is also remembered for founding the jazz program at Queens College, and for his contributions to the Louis and Lucille Armstrong Residence restoration.
As WFIU broadcaster David Brent Johnson notes in this tribute, Orrin Keepnews commented that Heath was “one of the most skillful and creative composers, arrangers, players, and bandleaders around.”
Our sincere condolences to his family.
See: indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/portrait-jimmy-heath-riverside-years.php ...