Fred Ho
Fred Ho (Chinese: 侯维翰; pinyin: Hóu Wéihàn; born Fred Wei-han Houn; August 10, 1957 – April 12, 2014) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer and Marxist social activist. In 1988, he changed his surname to "Ho".
Biography
He was born in Palo Alto, California, and moved at the age of six with his family to Massachusetts.
While he is sometimes associated with the Asian-American jazz or avant-garde jazz movements, Ho himself was opposed to the use of term "jazz" to describe traditional African-American music because the word "jazz" was used pejoratively by white Americans to denigrate the music of African Americans.
Ho arduously sought to define what constitutes Asian-American jazz: “What makes Chinese American music Chinese American? What would comprise an Asian American musical content and form that could transform American music in general rather than simply be subsumed in one or another American musical genre such as ‘jazz’?” He polemicized against, rightfully, “the white assimilationist notion of the petty bourgeois Asian American artist that anything by an Asian American artist makes it Asian American,” pointing out that, for instance, “Yo-Yo Ma is a cellist who happens to be Chinese/Asian American, not a Chinese/Asian American musician.”
Podcasts:
Fred Ho
ALBUMS
- Once Upon a Time in Chinese America... released: 2001
- Voice of the Dragon released: 2001
- Celestial Green Monster released:
Once Upon a Time in Chinese America...
Released 2001- Prologue: The Way of Shaolin
- Overture
- A Poisoned Soul: Gar Man Jang Curses Moon and Does Not Bow to Sun
- Serpentine Attack on Shaolin
- Chen Jak
- Miao Hin
- Gee Shin
- Li Wen Mao
- Ng Mui, the Martial Nun
- Outlaws All! All Heroes are Sisters and Brothers” (Loyalty Oath Sworn Underneath a Peach Tree)
- Drunken Fist and the Apocalypse
- Epilogue
Voice of the Dragon
Released 2001- Prologue: The Way of Shaolin
- Overture
- A Poisoned Soul: Gar Man Jang Curses Moon and Does Not Bow to Sun
- Serpentine Attack on Shaolin
- The Five Ancestors: Chen Jak
- The Five Ancestors: Miao Hin
- The Five Ancestors: Gee Shin
- The Five Ancestors: Li Wen Mao
- The Five Ancestors: Ng Mui, the Marial Nun
- Outlaws All! All Heroes Are Sisters and Brothers (Loyalty Oath Sworn Underneath a Peach Tree)
- Drunken Fist and the Apocalypse
- Epilogue
Celestial Green Monster
- Spiderman Theme
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Pt. 1
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Pt. 2
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Pt. 3
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Pt. 4
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Pt. 5
- Liberation Genesis
- Blues to the Freedom Fighters
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 1
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 2
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 3
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 4
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 5
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 6
- The Struggle for a New World Suite Pt. 7
Born: 1957-08-10
Died: 2014-04-12
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by Goldfrapp
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by Violet Burning
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by Afters
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by The Afters
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by Marie Fredriksson
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by Odd Crew
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by Acústico Reggae
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by Ultraphonic
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by Hi5
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by Cashless
We Radiate
by: GoldfrappI saw your face in the crowd
Everyone dancing
I asked if they knew your name
They couldn't see you
Thought I'd walk over
Stood there right next to you
Got a sensation
You were right for my body
Ha-ha-ha-ha
You're heaven
Ha-ha-ha-ha
We radiate
Ha-ha-ha-ha
You're heaven
Ha-ha-ha-ha
We radiate
I felt a chill in the air
It's not me dancing
Everyone looks kinda strange
Colors colliding
I'm in possession
This is no ordinary
Friday night disco
You stepped into my body
Ha-ha-ha-ha
You're heaven
Ha-ha-ha-ha
We radiate
Ha-ha-ha-ha
You're heaven
Ha-ha-ha-ha