Classify White American Pianist Keith Jarrett

[Adamastor]

Claims to be of Hungarian, Scots-Irish and French descent.


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[Negah]

he looks mainly white euro and part African

[Adamastor]

he looks mainly white euro and part African

He looks in between Quadroon and Octoroon imo (75-85% European). But he claims to be pure white and is accepted as such in American society.

[Blondie]

He's 1/4 black for sure.

[Adamastor]

He's 1/4 black for sure.

Can he pass in Hungary? :eek:

[Blondie]

Can he pass in Hungary? :eek:

Of course no, neither in any european country.

[Adamastor]

Of course no, neither in any european country.

But he's a White American...

[Blondie]

But he's a White American...

I doubt.

[Adamastor]

I doubt.

He claims to be one; of recent immigrant background even.

[ixulescu]

great jazz pianist, but he needs a DNA test :D

[Adamastor]

great jazz pianist, but he needs a DNA test :D

Yeah, haha. He claims to have been ''mistaken'' as black:


GROSS: In the ’70s, I think a lot of your fans debated with each other whether you were black or white.

MR. JARRETT: Yeah. Well, you know, at the same Heidelberg festival, there were some black musicians, or black audience members, trying to disrupt my performance because they claimed it wasn’t black music. And, of course, it wasn’t. One reason was that I wasn’t black. But this was a jazz festival. They were claiming not only was it not black music, but it wasn’t jazz and it shouldn’t be at this festival. And this was, I guess, during the time when, you know, the Black Muslim thing was pretty big.

And I went backstage afterwards, and I was rather heartbroken because I

thought, `Gee, these are fellow musicians or, like, people who like music, and why are they doing this?’ And I was just sitting alone in my dressing room probably very upset, and a man and his daughter knocked on–a man knocked on the door, blacker than any of the guys who were trying to disrupt the stuff on stage, who was actually from central Africa. And he and his daughter came back and said, `Mr. Jarrett, we just want to say that that was so beautiful.’ And I thought, `OK. Well, this is going to be just a political problem for me. It isn’t the music, it’s just the politics.’

GROSS: Did you think that a lot of people assumed you were African-American because your hair was really curly and looks like an Afro?

MR. JARRETT: Yeah. And a friend of my ex-wife’s was arguing with me and her that I had to be black, no matter what I said. And once Ornette, backstage, said something…

GROSS: This is Ornette Coleman?

MR. JARRETT: Yeah, Ornette Coleman. One of the earliest times I was in the same room with him, he said something like, `Man, you’ve got to be black. You just have to be black.’ I said, `I know. I know. I’m working on it. I’m…’

[Adamastor]

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