Trust the truth: Race doesn’t exist and jazz is alive | Ryan Matzinger | TEDxBozeman

Ryan Matzinger, professor of jazz, explores the social constructs of race and ethnicity through jazz. He argues that it is time to recognize that race doesn’t exist and that rather than dwelling on our differences, it is time to see ourselves simply as part of the human race. Through journeys with industry stars, studies with music legends, and as a saxophonist on a Grammy Award winning album, Ryan has developed as an artist and music professor belonging to the community of studied, genre melding, multi-faceted performers that are taking music back to its collective roots while exploring and researching the art form of Jazz and its connection to the cultural history and sociological condition of America. As one of the last remaining members of the iconic rock group Ike Turner and The Kings of Rhythm, he was on the Grammy Award winning 2007 album, Risin' With the Blues. Ryan is currently pursuing and continuing his performing, teaching and recording career while researching and studying jazz saxophone and African-American history at Montana State University as the newly tenured Jazz Professor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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