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Saxophonist & Social Activist Fred Ho Chronicles Transformation into "Radical Cancer Warrior"
DIARY OF A RADICAL CANCER WARRIOR: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level by Fred Ho; Foreword by Magdalena Gómez; Introduction by Cynthia Franklin “It's not every day you run into a musician who joins a protean range of talents—as a composer, saxophonist, writer, and bandleader—with a commitment to Marxist ideology." —The New Yorker “Pioneering." ...
Fred Ho Gets Very Serious on "Big Red!"
Fred Ho is a composer-instrumentalist-bandleader with a complex attitude toward his Chinese-Asian ancestry, the homeland and its contemporary historical stance, the Afro-American culture from which his music in part derives, and commercial culture in general and of America in particular. I won't begin to try and describe that attitude, except to say that his music reflects ...
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: "Year of the Tiger" a Reason to Celebrate
Fred Ho's Green Monster Big Band is something else, no doubt about it. Take some of the hottest players around (Bobby Zankel, Salim Washington, Stanton Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and on from there), put together wacky but convincing big band charts covering everything from “The Johnny Quest Theme," Michael Jackson, Hendrix, interesting original charts, ...
Art Hirahara: Noble Path
by Dan Bilawsky
Art Hirahara has gained the most notice for his work on saxophonist Fred Ho's adventurous outings, but the pianist's own music, while occasionally outward bound, often has a more immediately accessible sound to it. Featuring eight pieces from Hirahara's pen and four newly arranged classics, Noble Path is a piano trio record that's both commonplace and ...
Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
Fred Ho Green Monster Big Band: Celestial Green Monster
by AAJ Italy Staff
Scoppiettante album orchestrale per il sassofonista cino-californiano, a ribadire, anzitutto, le ragguardevoli doti di metteur-en-scène jazzistico emerse fin dagli anni Ottanta con una serie di brillanti lavori per la Soul Note. Qui è all'opera un megaorganico di una ventina di elementi, a rileggere, per cominciare, celebri pagine di spiccato umore “teatrale" (non a caso), con quella ...
The Jazz Session #157: Fred Ho
Baritone saxophonist and composer Fred Ho made Celestial Green Monster (Mutable Music, 2010) because he thought hed be dead soon. Hos amazing fight against multiple instances of cancer, and his lifelong pursuit of social justice and musical adventure, informs much of the music on his new album. In this interview, Ho talks about making music while ...
Celebrating Cal Massey: Fred Ho and Salim Washington Concert on April 22
CELEBRATING CAL MASSEY with Fred Ho & the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and Salim Washington & the Brooklyn College Big Band Thursday, April 22, 7 pm, Gershwin Theater Brooklyn College, Campus Road and Hillel Place FREE to Public This concert features a rare performance of the gifted composer and trumpeter Cal Massey's ...
How Does Music Free Us? Afro-Asian Revolutionary Concepts in New Music
A discussion and reading by author/composer/activist Fred Ho In this talk, Chinese American composer, baritone saxophonist, scholar-writer, producer, matriarchal revolutionary socialist and aspiring Luddite Fred Ho explores the role of music, both in imagining a new society, and in its applied role in foreshadowing or prefiguring a revolutionary society and a transformed humanity. Fred Ho has ...
