#gordon lee

[mikemantis]

I played drum set for this avant garde afro-jazz album. All the musicians really stretched themselves on this, with odd meters, complex forms, and difficult melodies. The ensemble was a killer group of veteran jazz and fusion players.

[asamstudiesintro]

"Asian American,” then, spoke to us because it was a refusal to allow white people and mainstream culture to define us. It gave us a rallying point that identified who we were and what we stood for during those times. It initially shocked some of the older folks — the Chinese Six Companies, the Japanese American Citizens League, our parents — but they, too, would come to understand that “Asian American” was to “Oriental” what “black” was to “Negro.”

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