Jazz for aficionados

It could be that musical genres follow something like the Bell Curve. Start off at zero, the few creators, grows to a maximun output, with maximun participation, creativity and popularity, then fades back to zero, the talent, popularity and creativity declining over time.

The main problem with geting involved with the 30s and 40s, is recording quality. Also, speaking for myself, as great as the music was, I don't own a lot of stuff recorded during that era. I think of my box sets of Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson. Great music with a great amount of noise. You LP guys probably have a higher tolerance for noise.:)

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*****To evade oppression in the United States, Scott moved to Paris in the late 1950s. ******

You read this alot in Jazz history. It's odd / strange, that black people, would 'flee', seeking racial justice, to a continent where Tens of Millions of people were murdered, based on race, a decade earlier.

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Here's an interesting artist, "Lila Downs Sanchez". She was born September 9 of 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. She is the daughter of Anita Sanchez, a Mixtec cabaret singer and Allen Downs, a British-American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. From an early age Lila showed interest in music. At the age of eight she began singing rancheras and other traditional Mexican songs. She began her professional career singing with mariachis. At fourteen she moved to the United States with her parents. She studied voice in Los Angeles and learned the English language, which her father helped her to perfect. When she was 16, her father died, and afterward she decided to return to her native Tlaxiaco with her mother.

One day while she was working in a store in the Mixtec mountains a man came in to ask her to translate his son's death certificate. She read that he had drowned trying to cross the border into the United States. This deeply affected her and has continued to influence her work. She talked about this in an NPR interview about her 2001 release entitled Border.

Although today Downs is proud of her origins there was a time when she felt shame regarding her Native American roots. "I was embarrassed to have Indian blood. I was embarrassed that my mother spoke her language in public." This led her on a path to find herself, which included dropping out of college, dying her hair blonde and following the band The Grateful Dead. After some time Downs found herself back in Oaxaca working at her mother's auto parts store, where she met her future husband and musical collaborator, tenor saxophonist Paul Cohen.

Downs studied Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and voice in New York. Later she attended the Institute of Science and Arts of Oaxaca to complete her studies.

At 25, after completing academic and music studies, Lila decided to return to Tlaxiaco. Paul Cohen always encouraged her musical ventures, and she joined a group percussion called Yodoyuxi's Cadets. Because Paul Cohen had business in the United States she began to live in both Minnesota and Oaxaca.

Here is one of my favorite cuts by Lila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtQY-gtdH4

Enjoy the music.

Frogman, Since "that's not exactly a fair comparison", is too loose to state anything specific, the statement needs clarification. The "soundtrack" is as shallow as a sidewalk puddle compared to "Brazil" on the LP, and that's what I meant.

Enjoy the music.

Rok, here's one you might like;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSkqfm73HxQ

Enjoy the music.