JMM

One has to be able to see that, to play that, to imagine that. And that’s what I appreciated about Hargrove. He did that all in a solo.

For you. For Alice. For Ravi.

What I would come to learn later was that Malcolm was a student, a scholar, and an organizer… We were just mad.

That unidentifiable, unresolved, gnawing feeling that we had, you articulated. We only knew something was wrong, but because you convened with the ancestors who had experienced that same feeling, you helped us identify that thing

Baraka taught us, and will continue to teach us that “art” too—by being connected, by connecting one’s self to those who came before, and knowing that our work will affect those who will come, “the beautyful ones that are not yet born”—will ensure our freedom, our liberation.