[JPL] All That Chinese Jazz

[Larry Appelbaum]

> "The Chairman saw jazz as a plaything of the elite, an accessory to
> foreign imperialism and the antithesis to common Chinese culture..."
> 
> Talking to Willie Ruff once about jazz in China and mentioned Teddy
> Weatherford as well as Buck Clayton as having played there. He just
> glared and said something to the effect that it was played there but
> with a sign on the door that prohibited regular Chinese people "and
> dogs" from entering.
> 
> Lazaro Vega

Andrew F. Jones goes into this in great depth in his fascinating book "Yellow Music: Media, Culture and Colonial Modernity":
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=aIDzyVzb9r4C&dq=yellow+music&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=n3c8Kc5lyh&sig=C7vUxLEMXtNflSGcO2DiTwbg6jg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA126,M1.

Larry

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