A few years ago, Lynette Jandl found that racism had gotten into her, and it was Richard Davis who helped get it out.
Jandl attended Davis’ Institutes for the Healing of Racism Inc., which the renowned Madison bass player runs out of his West Shore Drive home.
“Everyone who goes feels profoundly changed,” Jandl told a crowd of about 100 at the Diversity Picnic held by the Madison Department of Civil Rights Thursday at the Warner Park Shelter on Northport Drive.
Davis won the 13th annual Rev. James C. Wright Human Rights Award, presented by Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.
….Davis, a professor of European classical and jazz bass, jazz history and combo improvisation at UW-Madison, came to the UW in 1977 after spending 23 years in New York City establishing himself as one of the world’s premier bass players.