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You need your best soldiers on the frontline. Home About Contact Privacy Policy. I wasn't happy spiritually. But my parents had a home in Philly for 15 years, and then in L. First Name Only. This is my chrysalis, you know the caterpillar and the butterfly. Everybody knew Lorenz Hart was gay, so it wasn't a big deal. Can you talk about the confluence of the artistry in the Black church, and having that as sacred — when maybe some of the rhetoric of the Black church can be confining, or restrictive, or maybe even….

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Knoxville will always hold a very special place in my journey, because of everything that happened for me here personally. But coming out much later, that's a very unique and special demographic of men and women out there who are having trouble trying to find out where they fit in. I didn't feel it was safe for me to be able to discuss it, or be it, or embrace it.

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It's funny, we crisscrossed. But here's what you have to understand. And it was tough on them, because people would ask them questions about me. Lewis brings the heat from Downunder to perform a stirring saxophone statement. I can't do yes or no, but I can say: I don't know about machismo and the music itself, but I can speak to toxic masculinity.

Billy Strayhorn was unusual. I'll bring bottles of water. When you think of hard-driving swing, daring expression, sophistication and elegance in artistry, formidable technique and a thunderous sound, there are only a very small handful of contemporary pianists you think of and one of them is most assuredly ERIC REED. But I'm not strong enough for the front line.

He is my earliest musical influence. We can't be real artists if we take things out. Nate Chinen. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Tools Tools. Play Live Radio. I was when I was 25, not at And I I witnessed that. I didn't want it, because of the narratives: going to hell and fire and brimstone.