{"id":537,"date":"2006-07-05T21:37:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T21:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/07\/jazzmore-than-m-1.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T21:37:48","slug":"jazzmore-than-m-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/07\/jazzmore-than-m-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz–More than Music (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red, White and Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Independence Day I bought some slow gin and celebrated with Ralph Ellison.<\/p>\n

In Ralph Ellison’s, "The Invisible Man," the narrator was fond of eating a special desert while listening to Louis Armstrong sing, "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue."  Ellison writes…<\/p>\n

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"Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin.  I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Red_white_and_blue750x600_1\"<\/a> That is how Ellison saw America–red, white and blues–the red of the sloe gin, the white of the ice cream and Armstrong singing the blues.<\/p>\n

Red, white and blues–the native soil of this thing we call jazz.<\/p>\n

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