Yeah, what I like is living in a space where diversity is celebrated (and
not just "tolerated")... we're a whole lot richer for the experience... when
I look at the alternatives in some parts of the world, I'd say we're a lot
better off for the experience...
BTW, I looked up the Yousef Lateef site that Phil mentioned
(www.yuseflateef.com) and found the following:
"From August 1981 until August 1985 he was a senior research Fellow at the
Center for Nigeria Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria,
Nigeria, where he did research into the Fulani flute. Sarewa is the generic
name for the Fulani flute."
The Fulani were originally nomadic cowherders in Africa and way back came
from the Nile Valley.... I happened to live in a Fulani/Serer Village in
Senegal for a few years and have been out on a nomadic tip to the waterholes
with them. Imagine a cowherd playing his flute out on the vast savannahs of
Africa, that's got to be how it all began.
Brett "Bud" Breitwieser (brettb@rajah.com)
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-----Original Message-----
From: I.M. BULB [mailto:imbulb@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:06 PM
To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Coltrane poster?
and a 27 yo/black guy!! .. he he he
What can I say, jazz opened us up to the shakuhachi.
But the shakuhachi led us all here.
Isaac
--- Bud <bud@rajah.com> wrote:
> Sound like what we have here is a bunch of
> 50-something white guys playing
> an Asian instrument (namely, the Shakuhachi) under
> the heavy influence of
> black jazz musicians (Trane/Lateef).... what could
> be better?
>
> Great time and place to be alive...
>
>
>
>
> Brett "Bud" Breitwieser (brettb@rajah.com)
> Zen Site: http://zenbud.com <http://zenbud.com>
> Rajah Networking: http://rajah.net
> <http://rajah.net>
> Walking, Trike, Greens: http://rajah.ws
> <http://rajah.ws>
> The Dragon: http://rajah.org <http://rajah.org>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kyoung@MAILBOX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
> [mailto:kyoung@MAILBOX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Karl Young
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:56 PM
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: Coltrane poster?
>
>
>
> Sorry for cluttering up everybody's mailbox but I
> couldn't resist noting
> a resonance with Dan's comments. As another 50 year
> old shakuhachi
> student, it was most certainly listening to Trane,
> Yusef, Ornette,
> Dolphy et. al. that opened up and prepared my ears
> for the bombshell of
> first hearing Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky
> (experiences like that have
> only happened a couple of times for me, e.g. hearing
> Purple Haze for the
> first time). I commend Dan for "rescuing" himself
> re. having the
> intuition to ask his mom to pick up "albums by black
> jazz players". In
> this most multicultural of towns, San Francisco, I
> still had to be
> "rescued" from Getz, Mulligan, Baker,... (all of
> whom I still love to
> listen to) by a high school friend who turned me on
> to Trane - and as
> they say, I've never looked back...
>
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