Like the communists of the 1950s, the American Left fears the meritocracy promoted by great music genres such as jazz. All the more reason to promote it.
One Polish journalist called Brubeck’s arrival “a breath of fresh air to local music lovers and jazz aficionados, hungry for live performances of original American jazz.” Crowds followed Brubeck and his band around.
Liberals are driving wedges between people based on race, religion, and ethnicity — walls that dissolve under the influence of jazz and the other great arts. A Jazz and American Freedom Tour could do for socialist-sliding America what Brubeck did for the Iron Curtain in 1958: demolish it by offering people excellence and freedom.
Marsalis also blasts our “wild, out-of-control young people.” They need to appreciate artistic masterpieces, he argues, which are “an expression of feeling and a supreme expression of our humanity.” Rather than just downloading Cardi B, “we have an artistic imperative to understand and reengage creativity and innovation, not merely as tools for economic growth but as tools for democracy and accomplished scholarship. … The best jazz has always been the embodiment of integrity and conviction.
In 1958, Stanko went to see the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck perform as part of a concert series that the U.S. State Department sponsored. Brubeck, in a 1958 interview indescribed this famous tour: “Whenever there was a dictatorship in Europe, jazz was outlawed. And whenever freedom returned to those countries, the playing of jazz inevitably accompanied it.” In Poland, added the pianist, the word freedom “was in the mouths of everybody we had anything to do with.”interview in 2006.
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