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...lyrical. “He can play seven octaves on the bari sax—he can do things with the bari sax that no-one else can do,” says Kristen M. Pagan ’10, who played in the Monday Jazz Band with Ho for “Take the Zen Train...
According to Everett, Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra—who all pushed the boundaries of the musical forms they played—have all had some significant influence on Ho. “With Fred, it’s unpredictable. There’s no formula,” Everett says, citing the 11/4 meter in which one of the movements in “Take the Zen Train” is written. But Ho does not only draw on jazz for musical inspiration, he lists his influences as “everything, from Chinese opera to Korean...
...philosophy that occurred after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. His entire approach to music has become part of a much more organic, earth-conscious process, and he is now focusing on a new project, the Green Monster Big Band. “The old Fred Ho that engaged in whatever produced the toxicity that led to my cancer, that path cannot be returned to now. I’m a part-time farmer now, farmer Fred. I’m about four years old now,” he says. He grows his own vegetables...
...produce a truly unconventional piece, Ho worked with director and choreographer Daniel Jáquez (who graduated from the A.R.T. Institute in 2000) and incorporated student dancers into the performance. Jáquez is one of many artists who have been influenced by Ho’s strong personality. He describes the process of choreographing the show as a quest guided by Ho’s desire for liberation. “It wasn’t like each dance was unusual, but we found the bizarreness of the dance in releasing the dancers’ strength, in trying...
...Ho is hoping to bring “Take the Zen Train” and the Green Monster Big Band to New York venues soon. In the meantime, he is working on getting his Cancer Diaries published, and he continues advocating the lifelong social message he believes in. “It’s a mistake, an illusion to think that art is not political. All art is, even when it professes to not be. Because, even by not being political it simply rubberstamps the status quo,” he explains, adding...