I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO – BLACK MUSIC, BLACK POWER!

In the organizer's words:

James Baldwin would have been 100 years old on August 2nd.
Throughout his life, the blues, jazz and black music in general were the inspiration and impetus for his writing - many of his novels are set in clubs and many of the protagonists in his stories are musicians. He experienced the heyday of jazz in Paris in the 50s and 60s, knew Miles Davis, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone and many others.
He was a chronicler of political events, an activist and fighter for the civil rights movement who, like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, stood up for freedom and equal rights for the black community and lived his homosexuality openly.
To mark his birthday, Joachim Kubowitz (read, git, voc) together with Bruno Leicht (trumpet), Francois de Ribaupierre (piano, clarinet, sax) and Daniel Oetz-Salcines (bass) will present a revue with songs and lyrics from his creative period from the 1940s to the 1970s: Compositions by Charles Mingus, Nat King Cole, but also Isaac Hayes.
In literary terms, he takes up his book NATURE BOY, written for Nat King Cole in 2019, which he presented at the SALON DE JAZZ with musicians such as Martin Gjakonowski, and reads some passages from it that highlight the explosive nature of this period to this day.
Wednesday, December 18 at the Salon de Jazz in Cologne's Südstadt, Am Severinskloster 3a at 20:00 h (admission 19:30 h)

Joachim Kubowitz (read, git,voc)
Bruno Leicht (trumpet)
Francois de Ribaupierre (piano, clarinet, sax)
Daniel Oetz-Salcines (bass)

Admission: 20/15€