Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raza President Richard Garcia '94 emphasized the need to capture a wide range of Latino voices. "The point is to celebrate documentation, all the experiences, all the varieties of experience that make up the Chicano experience," he said...
...What we see in society is that only one voice is heard. The conservative Latino voices get published, because that's what the mainstream wants to hear," Garcia said. "We need to create our own works of art so everyone can tell his own story...
...this happened, an unassuming David Murray made a quiet late entrance. Ambling up to the stage, he looked a little tired. He explained he'd been performing until late the previous night at Madison Square Garden with none other than the Jerry Garcia Band. But within a few minutes Murray had assembled his saxophone and begun to lead the musicians away. The two men led the group through various exercises, including Fox's compositions, the Thelonious Monk ballad " `Round Midnight, " and the Charlie Parker blues "Billie's Bounce." There was plenty of advice for the student musicians, sometimes technical...
...should not simply limit themselves to one style of jazz, or even to the genre itself. "Jazz musicians should play other forms of music. I mean I play with [Indian sitar player] Ravi Shankar... I play with everybody." Asked whether he could play such sophisticated, rich music with Jerry Garcia, Murray responded, "Well, we got into some deep stuff last night. I thought it was pretty good, it was just [for] more people...
...Next year the team will be great," Garcia said. "We have a couple of great recruits. We've had a good time this year...