Fred Ho - Fred Ho (Chinese: 侯维翰; pinyin: Hóu Wéihàn; born Fred Wei han Houn; August 10, 1957 – April 12, 2014) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer and Marxist social activist. In 1988, he changed his surname to Ho.He was born in Palo Alto, California, and moved at the age of six with his family to Massachusetts.While he is sometimes associated with the Asian American jazz or avant garde jazz movements, Ho himself was opposed to the use of term jazz to describe traditional African American music because the word jazz was used pejoratively by white Americans to denigrate the music of African Americans.Ho arduously sought to define what constitutes Asian American jazz: “What makes Chinese American mu Fred Ho (Chinese: 侯维翰; pinyin...
