Jazz at the New School - Eddie Congdon

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. China Boy. Way to close!

I was at a bar in Zhongshan, China, PRC back in 1994. It was owned by my now partner and I was an early inestor. So, I'm in mainland China in '94 and we Americans, were rock-stars. They loved Bill Clintom and the USA and the coming world. Where we all spoke business (English). I had folks at the bar stand in a line to say "hello" in English and have a 3 sentence conversation....but they truly loved us and what we were conveying. In a raising tide, all boats float".

Anyways, I had an MP3 album with Louis Armstrong, Dead, Stones, Traffic and such. And the song that they visibly liked most was "China Boy"....it moved them - and few, if any, knew the racist routes of the music. Because, they got it. So did Phil Boutelje and Dick Winfree, I guess.