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Dave Rubin blues harp's avatar

Before he became a despicable antisemitic conspiracy theorist he wrote Apple Cores for Downbeat - a column in which he relentlessly polemicized against the non-avant garde jazz of the day. He singled out a lot of music on the BlueNote label for its allegedly retrograde political/cultural character -much of which is simply great jazz. He shoe-horned music into political categories ,and then evaluated the music according to his political propensities. Music qua music disappeared.

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New York filmmaker Karen Kramer writes: 'The line "he was married to a Jewish woman" is a bit unfair to the marvelous, brilliant woman he married. Hettie Jones was/is a poet and writer in her own right....and a damn good one. Her book, How I Became Hettie Jones , gives great insight into her life with Baraka and much of the Beat scene of that time. Jones is not as well known a literary figure as she should be. She was one of my favorite interviewees for my last film, easy to work with and almost a complete opposite of her former husband.'

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