lirik lagu jason moran - from the dancehall to the battlefield
they walked a very long way
saw you and tagged you forever
then strode away but kept you in their mind
as they tagged someone else
see, that’s how a lot of this works
they didn’t tell you where they were going
or what it would feel like or sound like
or the stories you’d tell about all that you’d survive
and yes, you will survive or be survived by
in 1881, james reese europe is born in mobile, alabama
and in the pre dawn of the great migration
his parents moved up to washington, d.c. because they knew
it is in d.c. that james begins to take violin lessons
from joseph douglass, the grandson of frederick douglass
because douglass knew innately that
liberation not only speaks from the mind
but also from the instrument
the violin, hollowed wood with a bow strung with horse hair
abrading tense steel
see, liberation occurs in many forms
when james then takes his violin to new york
he’s seeking a new sound to make
new folk to break bread with
and a new stage to plow
for the stage will always be a portal
a place to test what is real and surreal
what he realises is that a required respect on the stage
and off must be demanded
which culminated in the black musician’s union
called the clef club
it is the humanity that i hear in these songs
in his bands
when james tagged 125 musicians
walked into carnegie hall with his brand of syncopation
the new beat had arrived
because syncopation is about urgency
pushing the beat ahead
to apply the antic~p~tion of the oncoming downbeat
an outlook that is inherently futuristic
so all that futurism arrives
but the indoor stage proved only preparation
for another dangerous stage
the battlefield of world war one
and with his band of black diaspora
he brought the music across the atlantic
to the frontline of the battle
as his commitment to expansive vision was beyond
beyond the last row of the seats in the house
or the horizon of the trenches ahead
james reese europe
becomes one of the seminal big bands in black music
let us meditate on that
from the dancehall to the battlefield
and back home to you
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