2024-05-01
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hello, everyone, and welcome back to conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm here with Coleman Hughes.
Coleman has a great new book out, the End of race, arguments for a colorblind America.
But Coleman is more than just a book author.
He is a well known blogger.
He has a very famous podcast, Conversations with Coleman.
He has been a star in rap music.
He plays jazz music, trombone, professionally in New York City nightclubs, and he's all around a public intellectual and famous person.
Coleman, welcome.
Thank you so much.
And I have to apologize for stealing the name of your podcast for mine.
I figured I have alliteration, so I have extra reason to do it.
If your name was Tyler, it would be bad, but in fact, it's totally fine.
Now, before we get to your book, I have just some random questions for you.
What have you learned from JJ Johnson?
Hmm.
What is most interesting about JJ Johnson is that he was an extreme perfectionist.
What people don't realize about JJ, at least people that aren't deep kind of connoisseurs, is that most of his solos on his records were prepared to an extent that is not true of his other contemporaries, like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, et cetera.