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Old August 20th, 2006 #8
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The Multi Cultists got special dispensation to meet where loony John Brown kvetched his own final end?

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...20 members of the Ku Klux Klan showed up at the beginning of a Niagara Movement Centennial Commemoration...
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0hi...-movement.html


Some of the entertainment at the Harper's Ferry event. Here is the bio of "Ben Jaffe" bass player (pictured far left in group photos below) for the old negroes of Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Jaffe was born in 1971
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http://www.preservationhall.com/2.0/...mber.php?id=17

http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com...F2004/V20.html
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Benjamin Jaffe - Bass
Born January 26, 1971,
New Orleans, Louisiana

As the son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe, co-founders of Preservation Hall,
http://www.norriecox.com/jazzhistory.html

Benjamin was raised in the heart of the city and its culture. His earliest memories involve the musicians that his parents had befriended -- watching them perform in parades, sharing Christmas gumbo with his godfather, Harold "Duke" Dejan, even watching glaciers drift past at age three with his father and the band on an Alaskan cruise during a stop over on the band’s way to Japan. Benjamin began playing music in his grammar school's band at age seven; the school’s band director, bassist Walter Payton, was a fixture at Preservation Hall and father of the celebrated trumpeter Nicholas Payton, with whom Benjamin would eventually play with in the All Star Brass Band along with James Andrews now a Preservation Hall Band Leader in his own rite . Ben continued to study music at the New Orleans Center for Creative Art. In rehearsals they explored both traditional academic repertoire and songs that drew from the unique history of New Orleans -- the churches
("What a Friend We Have in Jesus")
as well as the clubs ("Basin Street Blues"). After hours, with his parents at the Hall, Benjamin listened to and got to know the reigning royalty of jazz: Sweet Emma Barrett, William and Percy Humphrey, Lewis Nelson, and the rest. After graduating from college, in 1993, he flew out to join the band as bassist on their world tour. Earning his music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, he assumed his late father's responsibilities as director of Preservation Hall while continuing as a full-time band member.

"Music in New Orleans isn't just something you hear in a classroom or a theater. It exists on the streets as a part of everybody's everyday life. You hear it in the parades and at the churches. We're so blessed to have that experience; there's nothing like it anywhere else in America."

"I never had to study New Orleans music. None of us did. We learned to play through knowing the people who played it before us -- not just as musicians, but also as friends. It wasn't just the notes they played. Anybody could learn the notes. But not everybody could spend weekends at the homes of these musicians, being a part of their lives outside of Preservation Hall."

"There's a lot of history, struggle and oppression, that contributes to what we now call New Orleans music. There's a lot of depth and meaning to the way we dance and celebrate. There's so much depth to what we play. That's why it's unique. Once you separate New Orleans jazz from the culture and life of New Orleans, it's not New Orleans jazz anymore."
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/niagara/index.htm


Last edited by Chain; August 20th, 2006 at 11:34 PM.