"Everyone in the world is musical"

A conversation with the great jazz musician and educator Victor Lin on race, Asian America, our innate musical ability, and the power of jazz to create community. Plus, some links for the week.

Albert:

I met Victor Lin on the basketball court. The Christian fellowship we were both involved with ran a weekly game, and I had decided to check it out. Around this time Nike was running a commercial that paid homage to the funk era, with a short cameo from Bootsy Collins: