Jazz for aficionados

Ran across this again. Had to listen and share one more time. Check out the conductor towards the end. The boy is into it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmOFAtg9twM

Cheers

Another view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TBk9k6H_Kw

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Rok, you might as well have stated African influence does not exist because the although the music sounded African influenced, the name was wrong. Cuban street music is a combination of Spain and Africa.

Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz are uniquely American, with no African influence I can detect.

Enjoy the music.

Rok, I can only assume that you were so excited to read something "supporting" your strange stance on "the African influence" that you neglected to read the entire article. From the very article that you linked:

****I have discussed western influences on African music; it will be impossible to close this discussion without highlighting that Africans have a profound influence on world music today. We can trace this influence to times before the popularization of Jazz as a true hybrid of African and Western musical idioms. Trade played a major role in exposing other nations to African music. Diaries of early explorers are full of accounts that at times exhibit their biases about a culture they viewed as primitive and inferior to their own.

It is also important to note that some early writers, such as Mc Kinney and Anderson, who acknowledged that "Negroes [African Americans] brought into the country [America] their own flavor of rhythmic genius and harmonic love for color peculiar to their music." The African influence on Jazz, Reggae, Rhythm and Blues, Hip hop, Rap and other popular forms of music that exist in America, Asia, Europe and other continents cannot be discounted. Mc Kinney and Anderson acknowledge the African contributions to indigenous American art forms when they write, ''Africans contributed to the first popular form of amusement indigenous to the American scene was the minstrel show, a distinctly native combination of a sort folk vaudeville with topical songs of a Negroid character." It is within this context that Africa continues to play a major role in reshaping the world music. One of the major African music idioms that have influence world music is captured in Jazz. Mc Kinney and Anderson argue that Jazz is a kind of music fusing elements from such widely differing sources as European harmony, Euro-African melody, and African rhythm into a kind of improvisations style based on a fixed rhythmic foundation. Its beginnings can be traced to the Negro musicians in the French quarters of the city of New Orleans around 1890.****

Seems as if you have been exposed to 'feel good history'. Being in NY, that is not surprising. A few facts would be nice, rather than just what some guy wrote. Remember, EVERYONE, has an agenda. Esp the liberal left. And most of what is written about the arts, is written by them. They are determine to make Africa something, even if it is not. They don't respect the music or the people, so being accurate is not important to them.

If all this stuff came from Africa, why is it not there now? Don't shortchange the people of the US and Cuba. Give them their due. THEY created this music. The only thing that originated in Africa were their ancestors.

You need to get out more. :) Visit the United States. Start with the Mississippi river in St Louis, MO, then down to Memphis, the Delta, and Louisiana, and then over to Texas. Make sure you write down everytime you hear the word 'Africa'.

One last thing. In many parts of the world, 'Afro' just means black. If black people play a certain music it's called AFRO-whatever. If the local whites had played the same music first, note for note, it would not be called Afro-anything. So much for orgins.

Cheers