feel much for coming we have a fantastic show today for you really are going to be talking about the job brazil legacy and if you don't know who joe brasilia is as they say on the street go ask somebody there you can google him and we're going to give you some information today hopefully that you have a better knowledge of mr joe brazil town of would you just tell us a little bit about yourself yes my name is that that is your connection so what made you decide to do the job brazil legacy certain intellectual property claiming he was doing research and a history of my uncle so in order to prevent this our legacy and our story to be whitewashed and or gen d for lack of a better word and after this historian revealed he had no intentions of returning the same property and was in fact going to attribute it to someone  else and that's pretty much all i'm going to say about that for now but that being said we began the initiative of our own in order to assure the true black history  story of joe brazil will be in the historic truth will be the historic church maintained and rees maintained been preserved by the community in which he did his great work and the people he did it with them for so we decided you know how would it look if how could he be with other racism and acts obstacles brought about by the racist whites that now this a white man who never even knew joe brazil would now be the job zero expert no we know joe brazil would never stand for that things are great so that's what sparked it  you know now we know he's a jazz musician did he go off into other or was interested in other forms of music or was he just basically strictly jazz jazz pierced ok and like i say i don't i refrain from referring to him in the past tense because i still feel him with me in his presence in the community through all the wonderful people i've been meeting  of the things about george brazil and you know we have some poster shots some of the history one of the things to talk about some of the things that he established in the african american community well he was one of he was the first african american music teacher and he created a curriculum at the university of washington he taught at garfield and he also created a black academy of music and music school and he influenced many of the artists going around seattle today and they are all being very helpful in what we're doing in this endeavor brazil established that well he was deny ten year after going after being asked to come to the university of washington an established this music program where they had no real knowledge he created all of the curriculum in sales and in fact would bring many famous jazz musicians even if they were fifty one was coming to town to do a performance he pretty much knew th because he's actually started in detroit ok so he had at his home in detroit a club basically in his basement so he came up during very times you know being born in one thousand twenty seven you can imagine and so this was a time where artist could come to town and play but there they would have nowhere to stay right and so he was in with with that situation and people always invited to his house and he just did it from home and so when he came here and then he had the same connections and so whenever they're going to sound they would call him up and he would invite them to come to the and even sit in and pop up and surprise many of the students and so on and he even helped to get students work with professionals i mean he  through professional ranks and through age ranks and many musicians are just have let me know how grateful they are to my great uncle that because of him they've traveled the world and  very successful music careers when i can bear witness curtis i was fortunate to be one of those students in his class and i think the grass was jazz one o one of jazz one hundred and he would teach you about jazz he would teach you about the artists he would teach you a little bit about the notes where they came from and you know that was really good he would just you know he made it easy where you could kind of understand where where we were how was this developed you know what was this musician trying to do and then like you said a musician would come to class boy you hit the jackpot member mccoy tyner and some other people would come to class and you never knew who was coming so  you didn't want to miss his class because you got to listen to him you got to listen to him play him as a play and then if you got a guest artist you know and they would they they knew him like that they knew him knew you know just so that was their reasoning behind and i him ten year and then i would also probably say because he would he was a strong black man the black academy of music where he was able to continue working with the black youth and he was quoted jesse why barry did a quote from him at our  about that my uncle joe brazil said i teach young black men in bars to keep them from behind bars so that again you know i teach young black men bars to keep them from behind  bars and he set standards with these young men that even as i'm moving forward with this work and meeting these gentlemen and if i like they're always telling me oh no  work this legacy work i felt i couldn't do it without having i need to walk in his shoes some kind of way so how so i know he did his community work as will side x that's why i got involved with a lot of different community organizations such as the historic central area arts and cultural district and i was involved with the disabled american veterans you know doing a lot of volunteer work and just you know getting involved in organizing community beings marketplaces and things like that just so i could really get a real feel and since you know because i knew this wasn't going to be easy task you know i just made it up from from all the levels from  just everything that would that it would entail in this story is so huge because i understand i was just a baby you know so i wasn't actually there you know joe is uncle joe you know him coming in with his briefcase and now i know what he was dealing with you know so that's that's something else that you take for granted you know i don't say i took for granted that this great man historic theater company and should i stay on the side so uncle joe did work with them he did he had television appearances here he's on  how he has been had been in sweden and and they knew more about what was going on knew about the history history here and the american people so yeah these are things that this is why it's so important because the history can get skewed and told by mainstream and people that do have more power and money and influence and they can tell it how they want to tell him and so this is why we are steadfast and in maintaining the black culture in the black history and because that's what joe brazil was about her let's look at made it clear that even beethoven b and black you know he was very prolific and his studies  and his beliefs and very vocal and strong strong influence so we were lucky to have me he did a lot for seattle re i find my own situation so i can do things how i want to do them so he connected with other people we have and here an educational institution dedicated to lifting the consciousness of people through music you know the brazil academy of music provides instruction to those who are just beginning as well as those who are yes he even went out this is i'm going out to the prison so he worked with at the prison complexes taking music ok out there and just keeping people encourage know music the prison program going oh yes he is he is he was all about instilling pride because if you can imagine the man was born in one nine hundred twenty seven and coming up through the great depression right and coming up through times  jim crow laws and you know segregation just dealing with with all of that and so uplifting the people was very important to him and  we is this this situation is unfortunate because we focus on the positive that we have so many so much great positive things going on in the community that just warms my heart and  but this is really what it's about keeping it one hundred as they say and that allowing you know the struggle struggle to overtake and overcome this i mean it is what it is  see there also that you know there they were you know trying to mess him over but then i see a poster there says a teacher in against racism and it was at the university of washington and  mentor is i'm named thomas who is a williams drobe resume and some other people so he was talking not just about he is having to do with but the general overall things that were going on at that time and still today oh yeah fifty years later you know it is it is it fifty fifty five years later yeah and it is still the same practically situation i mean a lot of our forward movement and maybe because some people say the latest establishment now really not back a lot of our progress but yeah like i say it's unfortunate we should be able to and wanting to create more positivity pride and just stability you know because that's also helping with economics this is this is people being able to work in their performing our sister to and doc maynard actually he's one of our band members in the job still legacy band so a lot of the people got to speak about their experiences with  and doc maynard made it a point to say yes joe brazil he could have been out famous on the road you know but he he had a love of he wanted to be with his family and the community so he even had here i don't want to you know that is what happened i say what the conversation went like but that show us that i'm here this is where i am now and this is what i'm doing now you know with with these people in my family as opposed to taking in that road to fame and fortune what so many people do and perhaps it was seeing the what happened with some what some of that if you're not careful out there on the road a and that's why i say that those the stability the ethics that he taught and standards that he taught and how these men are and women are still you know upholding them and just yeah  outstanding so that's all we'll say on that that you got the job brazil t shirt to honor his legacy so let's go back to the table i think we got maybe four more minutes oh ok and we can kind of wrap this  but hopefully we can this is part one so hopefully we can do a part of this i think we got some more ground to cover up and get to that so we talked about ok let's talk about the reunion and let's get those slides up a lot of different things of the reunion so for a technician we put some of the slides we can make in that and also the audience can have the information right there so an audience i would grab a pen or paper if you got it so you can jot some of these things down or use your phone so you know what's happened so let's go with joe brazil there is the contact information so if you want to know if you know someone you are you someone you or you know philly that might be able to contribute to the legacy because this is a community situation that we want everyone involved there to be great we can reach that job are still legacy at and if you're not a techie person because i realize a lot of people aren't with e mail and internet and facebook just telephone type person that's fine forty five to four three two seven three nine just give a coll or leave a name and number and say that you want to get involved with the job or zelenka see you might have a story to tell that you want to contribute to the documentary we're putting together so coming in september eighth we have a photographers and take pictures and that's reconnect from one to two forty five in there and we're having performances from three to five and last time we had about  band that more walking in my great uncle shoes so that i could have a real sense of what it was like so we have this band we play at caf addicks which is located at