How a Buffalo Soldier Changed the Life of Latin Jazz Master John Calloway | KQED
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The gig at Kuumbwa is the Afro-Filipino Project, which brings together two different worlds with new compositions combining traditional instruments of the Philippines with jazz and blues, as well as Afro-Filipinos and our musical influences. The key thing is that people come together to create meaningful music reflective of their identities.
It blew us out of the water, noting he shares his grandfather's middle initial, to see 'John W. Calloway' as the first three words of the chapter and to find out about his experience as a Buffalo Soldier in the Philippines was more than mind-blowing.
Struggling with identity is something of a Calloway legacy. Before his grandfather was sent to the Philippines, he fought in Cuba during the 1898 Spanish American War.
The war against Spain quickly turned into a brutal campaign to suppress the independence of the newly declared Philippine Republic. Many Buffalo Soldiers were sent to fight in a war that was cast in starkly racist terms.
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