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Submitted by kate of the kiosk on Mon, 2008-01-21 15:17.

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"...For me, Jihad and Jazz are very similar forms of commitment. For me, the generations of Black Americans who sacrificed everything for the sake of beauty and resistance were actually engaged in a holy war. For me it was Bird, Max Roach, Dizzy, Coltrane and others who went far beyond the American dream of materialism and market value. Jazz was their voice of freedom. Jazz was their call for a change. Jazz was an ideology, a spirit, and a way of living as well as dying. To be a Jazz musician is to fight for beauty, to create and recreate, to construct and deconstruct, to question while knowing that answers may not be available for a while. To play Jazz is to get lost deliberately. To play Jazz is to leave the self behind. "

http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/jazz_and_jihad.htm

YouTube - fabulous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEDjgdjmCfA

 

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