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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Norman Vickers <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Saturday, January 20, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DJML</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Dr. Martin Luther King on importance of jazz-- at opening of Berlin Jazz Festival 1964<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>To: </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>DJML</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thanks to super jazzfan Mike Lynch of Pensacola who forwarded this to me. Hope you find it of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:Lato;color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><a href="http://wclk.com/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-importance-jazz#main-content"><span style='color:white;text-decoration:none'>kip to main content</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://wclk.com/" title=""WCLK Home" "><span style='font-family:Lato;color:#168DD9;letter-spacing:.05pt;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=324 height=237 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:46DFA06E03424C6EB95BD050F7D8D247@Boblap" alt="WCLK logo"></span></a></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:Lato;color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span lang=EN style='font-family:Lato;color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Atlanta's Jazz Station--Classic, Cool, Contemporary <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#F2F2F2'><span lang=EN style='font-family:Lato;color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><a href="http://bit.ly/2fOZsPy" target="_blank">Support Jazz Public Radio In Atlanta By Becoming A WCLK Member</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 id=page-title><span lang=EN>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr On The Importance Of Jazz<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:Lato;color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>On the Importance of Jazz</span></strong><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>This is triumphant music.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.</span></em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'>In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.</span><o:p></o:p></em></p><p><em><span lang=EN style='color:#3D3D3D;letter-spacing:.05pt'> --End--</span></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>F.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Norman</span><span style='color:black'> Vickers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>5429 Dynasty Drive</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Pensacola, FL 32504-8583<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Home 850-484-9183; cell 850-324-5022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jazz Society of Pensacola 850-433-8382<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.jazzpensacola.com/">www.jazzpensacola.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:nvickers1@cox.net">nvickers1@cox.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://jazzpensacola.com/vickers/">http://jazzpensacola.com/vickers/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Member Jazz Journalists Association</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id=DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 style='border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt'><tr><td width=55 style='width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=470 style='width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#41424E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>