Allen Michie
allenmichie@jazztodon.com
<p>Jazz and arts critic for Artsfuse.org, record collector, record salesman on Discogs (Blythe Amusement), manager of the Miles Davis Discussion Group on Facebook, and administrator of Jazztodon.com for Mastodon. I'm a higher education administrator in the great city of Austin, Texas. You can read my reviews and articles at allenmichie.medium.com.</p>
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The president says the Nobel Peace Prize committee is an enemy of civilization. “The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization,” Trump went on.
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Jazztodon artist of the week: Charles Mingus! Born to mixed-race parents in Nogales, Ariz., Mingus grew up in Los Angeles. In a 1962 interview, Mingus notes he was light-skinned; he didn't fit in with the Black, white or Mexican kids at school. He played the trombone, then the cello, but switched to bass when he was 16 because, at the time, it was impossible for a Black man to find work playing classical music. Mingus drew on traditions that ranged from ragtime to the avant-garde, and his...
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Jazztodon artist of the week: Scott Joplin! From @aaj@jazztodon.com : Scott Joplin personified ragtime; he was its chief champion, the figure most closely associated with its composition. It was Joplin's short, hard-driving melodies- -and the syncopated backbone he furnished them—that helped define the musical parameters of ragtime, a style that gave voice to the African American experience during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a move not uncommon for young blacks at the time,...