CPUSA on JFK2

[Sam Pawlett]

Alex LoCascio wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 08:08:14 -0700 Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> writes:
> 
> >Jarvis Tyner is Mccoy Tyner's brother.
> 
> How does McCoy feel about his brother's politics?
> 

Don't know. I met McCoy briefly in Chicago a number of years ago but
didn't ask him about politics.


> In the liner notes to the Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings,
> there's a photo of Trane reading a book called "The Opium of the
> Intellectuals" which I believe is an attack on communism.
> 

Its called Marxism:The Opium of the Intellectuals. It was a CIA
propaganda publication. I would never accuse 'Trane of being a bushy
tailed conservative  with songs like Alabama and the like. He, like
McCoy later would, got into the afro-centric thing. Trane was into
mysticism, peace and love and all that. There is a photo of him laying a
wreath in Nagasaki.
Sam Pawlett