african american community and really the whole community and throughout the nation and throughout the world and with that i'm tossing it over to you tonight ok so if we can basically let's put the first excuse me but i think i need to use notes sometimes because there's so much information that i like to make sure i am in the right frame of mind here so what i do want to make clear is that view you know he came out here worked at boeing as an engineer and he is goodness so one of those urban legends that happened to be true and this is a quote from vivian phillips who worked with him at one of our black radio stations bag in the seventy's k y c she says he along with all of the other jazz musicians and asked us to please around the community at the time gave us a level of closeness to great music and musicians that made an impact on how our culture was e i don't think any of us really understood how fortunate we were to have teachers like joe brazil both garfield high school and the university of washington music legends like joe brazil should never fade from our memories and again like i said joe after high school he served in the u s army and he returned to detroit and continued his studies he worked in the auto industry and at that price and with the chrysler miso plant as the only black tool and die maker at the time so that's that's where i was going man of many bars and i mean come on trailblazer ok and pull people along with them you know so many love his home was turned into a studio and this is the home in detroit that where he had many well known now well known musicians played in developing news excel and then at the university of washington like i said in  sixty nine without any curriculum he came in he developed that curriculum yes and and from my understanding would be standing room only and some people who weren't even in the class was go to his class i like i say to continue to move forward so we can go sit in next slide for where he developed the black academy of music and nine hundred sixty nine to serve the community and youth with cultural enrichment and a sense of history and that also included the prison to outreach program and then he also continued to lecture after leaving university washington and he would like shura schools and colleges and the importance of history and music so jam session and it's kind of like how i'm gathering people because musicians are hearing about you know what's going on with jobs also we want to connect this is this almost like our media you know so everyone's invited you know to come if you're we call ourselves the brazilians if you're brazilian and you feel you hear a call and they sound like this some place you need to be means come on down because you are part of this history and this legacy and this is what i need is members of the community to now come forth so that we can preserve and retain this very important black seattle history will not only seattle history but we're going we're focusing on seattle at first the beginning stages so other musicians have come in and sat in in jan with this and we just always have a good and positive time you know people are bumping into each other haven't seen each other in decades so  it's just a great thing you know i really had no clue i mean i knew it would be great and big and wonderful but i didn't even understand what it was for granted what was going on the range you events with three day tribute it was really awesome and some people kept colony and afterward that didn't make it and they heard about it and they were disappointed that they missed it so we decided to not wait here for the next tribute and to just  keep making it available because he asked the whole thing back that availability right so so there we went ahead to plan the bammer union so which that's set up for saturday september eighth at length and he was again  historic central area arts and cultural district organization and this is in partnership with the city of seattle office of arts and culture and links and use of course all this is why i'm saying why people are really coming on board and be a support legacy that information be on the next slide as well so that's another way to just get connected and stay in touch with us and what we're doing so yet blackadder me music alumni friends  reunite to celebrate the legacy and then on the next slide it just tells more about how to show how the days going to go from one to two forty five you know do the memory lane where body can can have time to connect because at the last  that is really great and i'm excited about that whole situation so uncle joe is was a genius he's a genius and he's a man who was before his time you know like i said he's an engineer and also computer savvy and was already doing and what we call social media before it was even popular you know he was capturing events adil taping he was catching events and film and photos and so we still have most of this collection and so our next move is going to be to in fact digitize these collections in order to share and  history because when i tell you i look through the slides i have pictures of a young dizzy gillespie and oh wow i have pictures of cow basi pictures of people that you know  npublished that i mean this is from his personal collection these were his friends so what the spartans they it was unfortunate but it has now did come to life and it makes me think of the certain scripture this is all good things come out of things are good if you're walking in accordance with you know you know that scripture i was talking about  yeah you know that you can be a bad situation but you can still get some good and every place really so it was like yes this was something painful but in the at the end of the day it did shine a light and brought light onto the to help with that and so that's why we started the patriotic where people go sign on and basically subscribe and do even just a small monthly you know portion  documentary we've been interviewing many of the community members so yeah we interview you mr eddie go more into production of that you know editing it out and i saw a post you made about how long it took to make our people our rising documentary seven years seven years yeah we don't want to make people wait that long where we're where i mean not that they have to wait that long but right now i understand i truly understand how and why that would take seven years but our plan is to do almost just a this is just a lot of times i'm be more of a docu of log human every most like a video blog documentary that instead of trying to compile everything and put it into this movie yes that would take years to get done i don't want to keep people waiting because the writers generations are you know that and then this you know this one rushing you know i feel like we're not rushing but i'm trying to get as much as i can now mean we didn't want to make them wait till the next year for true another tribute or another reunion like we can't wait another year listen to this as soon as possible and let's get this out as soon as possible so people can enjoy it enjoy so a blog a minute which would be smaller he has also been collecting interviews and he's on rainier avenue radio dot world and so he's been very helpful in connecting me with a lot of the people that were associated with my great uncle my great aunt frances brazil is still alive by the way for not mentioning her sooner you know air behind every good man you know they say is a go or i should say beside every good man is a good woman and my great around her gently so people like you and john as talky and people that were there are mary helpful in connecting me with the people that i need to connect with to make this happen real music it's real music when you go out and hear real music now it's of wonderful thing because you know so much auto tune with the with the people who are coming up and when we're talking about singers and stuff like that but it's like to really appreciate the art there goes into you know playing an instrument and dedicating your self to you know master that and some of these people here they were there serious oh yes they were serious you know they they were serious they took this this precious gift and utilized it you know for themselves for the audience for you know just the general public just to really really appreciate it i mean and the work and the practice you know that went into it and the dedication that's one thing i remember about drove a zero is dedication whatever he was involved in he was  school to prison pipeline i mean the things that like we're doing now he was doing already yes i say he was definitely a man before his time but a genius you know as i feel he does deserve that title and let me let me go ahead and say i have put in the paperwork to have september a proclaimed so brazil day i kind of was keeping it under wraps because i didn't hear back it but i figure but let's just put it in a universe that none of this is going to happen so that we can definitely you know at this celebration you know just really give him the day people are when they kali and they're saying they want to participate and they're just glad to have the their platform you know on this what i say i'm a conduit you know and so many people i will where you are use like it's just really not about me  this is just how my family is obviously i mean we share yeah we have so much you know it's like yeah we share you know where we're open we're giving my uncle put on i remember going up to festivals as a kid you know and he was just putting on festivals and doing all these things and so that's just part of what i do that's part of my culture so it is second nature to want to share and have people on board and so it's not about me and so many who oh thank you to you know this is about him you know when and i even told the band members when people are asking in what saw this and who's this point they're right back to joe brazil because that's that's what it is it's all about joe brazil but i do have to say for the band that they come every week and it's not about the money with them these these gentlemen are just about doing this work and this is the type of work that in it's bringing so much joy to people that you know i've heard in the employ yes it was it was a thing but i just i'm just drown in the in it and i love it and i'm in a very happy place it helps me to stay motivated you know it is tiring running in if anything oh in the post if you want to show again anything i want to point out on a poster that maybe we minister want to go back over and we got to talk just briefly about well we just got to mention that it's awesome yes well by going you know becoming a patron then you will have access to so many things regarding joe so there's a lot of mystery involving and that's why i say i'm on board and people and i'm learning a lot as i go even about production being a musician i do happen to have a guitar but i don't i'm learning how to play it so but that's just my band member but yes he was very concerned with with the with the you so sam chambliss here lizzie milton and we have all i've been speaking to spencer haywood i'm formerly yes yes so i mean you can almost name anyone popular at the time and he had some connection the headlines is the music business tough but worth it for black academy of music so the director joe brazil guys the community organizer in a practice session know this i mean this is just such great history that you got somebody this little we just comes to the community start starts the academy he's the executive director any is also teaching in it so i mean you know you just get a little bit of everything that finale well let's anything else you want to show we're over here because we only got a but we got about three minutes three minutes here anything else that we can do is go back to the table john coltrane count basi dizzy gillespie grover washington jr roy ayres and more focused on his many talents toward education he's directed a number of groups jazz to economics and has taught music both privately and professor emeritus at the university of washington and being involved currently involved in computer research working with mathematics and music now reorganizing economics with members  and really all the hard work