John Shand Posts

Saxophonist Bernie McGann was once hired by a juggler, who tossed him some sheet music, counted in the tune and began juggling. McGann didn’t play a note; just stood staring at the music, knowing he shouldn’t have come. The juggler needed McGann, but McGann didn’t need the juggler. He could…

The cover tells the story. Three young black men stare defiantly at the camera from a lunch counter, while the waiter’s curdled expression makes plain they’ve sat in a whites-only area of a segregated diner. Sixty years later and, like our own black population, African Americans still face racism in…