Abstract

Vince Robinson is a local Cleveland musician and owner of Larchmere Arts, a studio for poetry, R&B jam sessions, lectures and theatre. He attended Kent State University in the 1980, were he was introduced to jazz, photography and poetry through college professor Mwatabu Okantah. Robinson is also a freelance journalist and has interviewed Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and other influential jazz musicians. In this oral history, Robinson discusses his art, career and reflections on race. In 2019, his art exhibit The Black Experience: From Then and Now was displayed at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

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Interviewee

Robinson, Vince (interviewee)

Interviewer

Taffe, Jamila (interviewer); Schnack, Erich (participant)

Project

Green Book Cleveland

Date

7-18-2023

Document Type

Article

Duration

94 minutes

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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