The historian Playthell Benjamin wrote: ATTENTION LOVERS OF GREAT AFRO-AMERICAN MUSIC!!! Here is a duty free gift to those with epicurean taste in music. One of the greatest tragedies in contemporary Black American life is that the overwhelming majority of our youth are abysmally ignorant of their great musical tradition which is their heritage and Americas most original contribution to world culture! While white Americans who consider themselves serious artist were imitating and genuflecting before all things European as the great Afro-American political theorist Harold Cruse pointed out, Afro-American musicians studied the master musicians of Europe but decided to create something new. The power of our music is such that it won the devotion of serious musicians all over the world. Here we have the great actor/director Clint Eastwood interviewing the incomparable Ray Charles about the art of AfroAmerican piano by profiling three of the greatest pianist of the 20th century regardless of genre!!!! Check it out and be instructed and edified!!!!
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:12:31 +0000
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