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Jason Moran: Promoting the Freedom Principles

By Leo Sidran | The Third Story
June 8, 2020
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Pianist, composer, conceptual artist

Jason Moran

piano
b.1975

" data-original-title="" title="">Jason Moran on truth versus passion, promoting the "Freedom Principles," America's unfortunate way of forgetting the past, when innovation becomes rhetoric, what it means for African American musicians to move freely "from the stage to the table," the power dynamic in choosing repertoire, coming up in Houston among a generation of jazz innovators (including

Robert Glasper

piano
b.1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Robert Glasper and

Eric Harland

drums
b.1976

" data-original-title="" title="">Eric Harland), what we still have to learn from

Louis Armstrong

trumpet and vocals
1901 - 1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Louis Armstrong, the common threat from

Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk to KRS-1, and what it means to be the "personal embodiment of your history."

Along the way, he discusses studying with

Jaki Byard

piano
1922 - 1999

" data-original-title="" title="">Jaki Byard, revisiting the music of

Fats Waller

piano
1904 - 1943

" data-original-title="" title="">Fats Waller, and much more.

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