When Arny Young was in high school, he would always ask music teachers why everything needed to be over a preset form. “They’d tell me that was the only way to play sensible music,” says the drummer. Then Young discovered free jazz. In 1963, just three days after Young’s high school graduation, he moved from… Continue reading How Arny Young became the first free jazz drummer in KC
There’s a line in the iconic film Selena when Edward James Olmos, who plays Selena’s father, is in the driver’s seat of the tour bus, careening down the highway. He’s on one of his many surly soliloquies, this one expounding the burden of being an American citizen with a Latin heritage: “Being Mexican- American is… Continue reading How cooking my mother’s rice gave me my name back
