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The A to Z characteristics and qualities of Being a Revolutionary by Fred Ho
"Besides being a baritone saxophone bad-ass (one of the greatest ever to play that big horn!), Fred Ho, in his final moments of life on this planet (fighting stage 4c metastatic cancer and left ventricle thrombosis), has lovingly, poetically, and humorously crafted a very basic instructional handbook for everyone to become a revolutionary. Sure to be a powerful rival to Mao s Little Red Book! Arthur Song --Book cover"
About the Author
"Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia)."
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"Besides being a baritone saxophone bad-ass (one of the greatest ever to play that big horn!), Fred Ho, in his final moments of life on this planet (fighting stage 4c metastatic cancer and left ventricle thrombosis), has lovingly, poetically, and humorously crafted a very basic instructional handbook for everyone to become a revolutionary. Sure to be a powerful rival to Mao s Little Red Book! Arthur Song --Book cover"
About the Author
"Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia)."
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A World Where Many Worlds Fit (English & Spanish) Manifesto for an Anti-Manifest Destiny Marxism by
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The bulk of the Marxism that has been theorized and politically practiced during the 20th century globally was incapable of transforming human society by eradicating the capitalist system. Furthermore, the actualizations of socialism, as evinced in every revolutionary project around the globe during the 20th century, all have capitulated and failed to produce a qualitative and significant pathway towards a better world. The root of the problem is the toxic Manifest Destiny Marxism, a series of fallacious and inimical conceptions about revolution as primarily a western, modernist project to end capitalism with a replacement social system of some form of socialism unable to break with western modernity
About the Author
Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia).
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The bulk of the Marxism that has been theorized and politically practiced during the 20th century globally was incapable of transforming human society by eradicating the capitalist system. Furthermore, the actualizations of socialism, as evinced in every revolutionary project around the globe during the 20th century, all have capitulated and failed to produce a qualitative and significant pathway towards a better world. The root of the problem is the toxic Manifest Destiny Marxism, a series of fallacious and inimical conceptions about revolution as primarily a western, modernist project to end capitalism with a replacement social system of some form of socialism unable to break with western modernity
About the Author
Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia).
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The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute Fred Ho & Quincy Saul present (Artist)
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Calvin Massey (1928-1972) is virtually unknown with the exception of both highly knowledgeable jazz scholars and a small coterie of illustrious musicians who remain alive and were immensely indebted to Massey s musical influence and mentorship. Massey was a father figure and close friend to many of the greatest jazz musicians of the post-World War era until his early death in 1972. Massey was a trumpeter, but was most noted as a composer of magisterial works, of which his epic opus was The Black Liberation Movement Suite, an extended work of nine movements. Until now, the work had never been recorded in its entirety. Cal Massey ranked among the greatest jazz composers of the 20th century, included with Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Sun Ra. The Black Liberation Movement Suite is one of the undiscovered gems of an epic jazz extended work. It perhaps may be regarded through the exposure of this recording release as one of the greatest jazz suites of the 20th century, joining Mingus Epitaph, Let My Children Music and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, the major Ellington suites and extended form works (the Sacred Concerts, The Liberian Suite, The Drum is a Woman, etc.), Oliver Nelson s The Afro-American Suite, and the varying cosmo-dramas of Sun Ra. While of considerable musical and artistic grandeur as these other great extended works, The BLM Suite is also a work of considerable socio-political significance, commissioned by the Black Panther Party and musically and ideologically expressing the revolutionary upsurge of the Black Liberation struggle in the U.S. during the late-1960s. Three other Massey compositions are featured herein. Quiet Dawn was composed for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Goodbye Sweet Pops is an homage to Louis Armstrong. Finally, The Cry of My People epitomizes Cal s compositional energy for combining the soulfulness of Spiritual-like melody with bold and complex harmonic structures.
About the Composer
Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia).
Editorial Reviews
Calvin Massey (1928-1972) is virtually unknown with the exception of both highly knowledgeable jazz scholars and a small coterie of illustrious musicians who remain alive and were immensely indebted to Massey s musical influence and mentorship. Massey was a father figure and close friend to many of the greatest jazz musicians of the post-World War era until his early death in 1972. Massey was a trumpeter, but was most noted as a composer of magisterial works, of which his epic opus was The Black Liberation Movement Suite, an extended work of nine movements. Until now, the work had never been recorded in its entirety. Cal Massey ranked among the greatest jazz composers of the 20th century, included with Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Sun Ra. The Black Liberation Movement Suite is one of the undiscovered gems of an epic jazz extended work. It perhaps may be regarded through the exposure of this recording release as one of the greatest jazz suites of the 20th century, joining Mingus Epitaph, Let My Children Music and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, the major Ellington suites and extended form works (the Sacred Concerts, The Liberian Suite, The Drum is a Woman, etc.), Oliver Nelson s The Afro-American Suite, and the varying cosmo-dramas of Sun Ra. While of considerable musical and artistic grandeur as these other great extended works, The BLM Suite is also a work of considerable socio-political significance, commissioned by the Black Panther Party and musically and ideologically expressing the revolutionary upsurge of the Black Liberation struggle in the U.S. during the late-1960s. Three other Massey compositions are featured herein. Quiet Dawn was composed for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Goodbye Sweet Pops is an homage to Louis Armstrong. Finally, The Cry of My People epitomizes Cal s compositional energy for combining the soulfulness of Spiritual-like melody with bold and complex harmonic structures.
About the Composer
Fred Ho is a legendary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, writer, producer and revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite. He and illustrator Quincy Saul co-edited the landmark book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (PM Press) and the recording The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (Mutable Music). Fred Ho is also the co-editor with Ron Sakolsky of Sounding Off! Music as Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution (Autonomedia).
Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution Paperback
Deadly She Wolf & Momma's Song paperback Fred Ho
Night Vision by Ho, Fred, Margraff, Ruth (2003) Paperback Paperback
A first to third world vampyre opera
Night Vision, a new work by composer Fred Ho and playwright Ruth Margraff provocatively subtitled "A New Third to First World Vampyre Opera," has its Off-Off-Broadway premiere Feb. 2 at HERE in New York City. Previews began Jan. 26 for a run through Feb. 19. Tim Maner directs.
Night Vision is as peculiar as its full title would suggest. Fueled by Ho's hyperkinetic, Afro-Asian rhythms and Margraff's dense, theatrical text, it tells the story of a young woman whose unreal voice propels her to singing stardom. Little do her adoring fans realize, however, that she is a 2000-year-old vampyre who is managed by a figure just as ancient and is pursued across the centuries by a man who wants to reclaim the soul she stole from him long ago. The opera dwells on such issues as the impact of celebrity, commercialism and multi-culturalism on art and life, focusing upon a popular, but mysterious, singer.
The opera was given a concert staging at Cooper Union this past October.
Margraff has long been the darling of the Downtown set, an experimental playwright whose work is much admired but seldom seen. Her musical Cry Pitch Carrolls was directed by Maner at HERE in fall 1998. Other works include The Elektra Fugues and Locket Arias. A recipient of many grants and fellowship, she recently accepted a teaching gig at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fred Ho is an avant-garde writer, producer, composer, arranger and baritone saxophonist. Among his recordings are "Warrior Sisters" and "Monkey: Parts One and Two."
Night Vision was commissioned by the Salvage Vanguard Theater of Austin, TX.
- See more at: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/ho-margraff-vampyre-opera-night-vision-debuts-oob-feb.-2-feb.-19-86822#sthash.TY4vkNjb.dpuf
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