If all you have to go on is the reference to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, I wonder if you might be reading too much into it. Accurate or not, they got a lot of press in mid century celebrating them as idealists who were early to jump into the fight against Fascism. I don't know what he's read about them, and Marsalis didn't elaborate on the point.
I don't know the details of Marsalis' political views, but his advocacy of keeping an eye on the government and playing jazz seem to make being a hardcore Stalinist unlikely.
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Date: 2006-01-27 04:07 pm (UTC)I don't know the details of Marsalis' political views, but his advocacy of keeping an eye on the government and playing jazz seem to make being a hardcore Stalinist unlikely.