Fred Ho, 56, Composer, Saxophonist, Activist

“Mr. Ho, who was of Chinese descent, considered himself a ‘popular avant-gardist.’ He was inspired by the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and by the ambitious, powerful music of African-American bandleaders including Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and especially Charles Mingus. But he rejected the word jazz, which he considered a pejorative term imposed by Europeans.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.13.14

What do we want from a Culture Secretary?
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How Many Make a Solo?
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This archive recording broke all fund-raising records
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-12

AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-04-11

Trouble With iTunes, and More On San Diego Opera
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New Rules For New Technology – We Need ‘Em

“The hybridization of ourselves and our technologies, and the political and economic struggle around this process, threatens to destabilize some qualities of our intimate lives that are also among the core foundations of our civil and moral society: freedom, trust, empathy, forgiveness, forgetting, attention.”

Suddenly, Everyone Loves Really Old Photos – And Here’s Why

“A photograph really is a frozen fragment of time. Not even the fastest, most gifted artists or the most sensually specific novelists have ever captured the kind of incidental realities a photograph dumbly records – the creases in the uniform of the last Napoleonic veteran, his paunch and sidelong glance and white whiskers – or the Brighton Swimming Club in 1863, naked except for their trunks and top hats.”