More on Race, Jazz, and the Relaunch of OKeh Records  By John
Murph louis armstrong 650 ap.jpg    What disturbed you about the
essay?           Obviously for us, it's a point of sensitivity
for both Wulf and myself because we've done so much over our
careers to help promote and advance—very aggressively—jazz music
and certainly the African-American jazz community. If you ask
any of the artists that we've worked with over time, they are
going to acknowledge that.  Regarding the three records that
you've mentioned: Given the whole idea of marketing, public
perception, and potential bad publicity, did you not think that
some in jazz community, and particularly the African-American
people, would find not having any black American artists in the
initial lineup to be problematic?  Mitchell: All that I can tell
you is that we are currently negotiating and talking with a
number of black musicians in the process of building our roster.
Not one of them asked us how many black musicians are going to
be one the roster. I