Miles Davis, a Trumpeter and Jazz composer, created the album “Tribute to Jack Johnson” in the 1970s. The Album is described as one of Davis’ most “Truculent (Eager to fight), trash-talking solos of his career.” Jack Johnson was the first black world heavyweight boxing champion, fighting at the height of the Jim Crow Era. Davis viewed Johnson as one of his heroes; “a black man too talented and too successful for an America that reacted by being too white and too challenged.” Both men used their bodies in their professions: Johnson used his body to fight, and Davis used his body to produce music.
In this live performance, I am taking a jazz album with a more male experience of aggressiveness in the face of oppression and transforming it into a more feminine perspective on aggression.
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