Jazz for aficionados

I can't help it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEmvBdRLg4k

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In the words of John Lee Hooker "Let that boy Boogie Woogie".

I guess this is the "jumping around" that O-10 referred to. Does this mean we are done with Cuban music?

So, was there anything of interest in my posts, Rok? Learn anything? Disagree with anything? This is a crucial moment in these discussions, IMO. One can either jump ship or take things to another level and really make things insteresting and learn something; or, do the usual retreat to the comfort zone.

****if spirituals, blues and jazz have an African connection, we should have those equivalents in Haiti, Cuba, and Salvador Brazil****

O-10, do you mean music styles in those other countries that also have an African connection?

*****So, was there anything of interest in my posts, Rok? Learn anything? Disagree with anything?*****

It was all interesting and I really appreciate the time, effort, and thinking, it must have taken to write them.

Since eventually a person has to believe some of what is written, I have learned, that as late as 1899, many / most?, blacks in Cuba could not speak Spanish. So, what language did they speak? I have learned that the importation of Africans into Cuba continued until the 1860s and slavery was not abolished until 1886. Importation ended in the US in 1808.

Cuba is very small compared to the US. The few sugar cane plantations were owned by a few wealthy Europeans, mostly Spainards. I stress the word 'few'. The Africans worked in the cane fields, slept for a few hours, and then started it all again. In rural areas. Isolated. Esp the men. People in Cuba were legally divided into White, Black and mixed race.

This meant greater isolation for people of pure African decent. Isolation means a culture can be sustained or created, with little chance of cross contaimination. Culture includes music.

All this indicates that it is very likely that African influences in Cuban music were significant, almost to the point of Cuban music being African music, with Spainish influences.?

This is true for all Spainish islands of the Caribbean and Brazil. More slaves were imported into these countris and for longer, than into the US.

So if you can hear all this African stuff in Cuban music, I cannot prove otherwise. It seems reasonable.

That this is also true in Black American music, I strongly disagree. Every relevant condition was different here. The last person from Africa entered this country in 1808. The ones already here? They all spoke English, however badly, and apparently they were all Baptists. :) And they were EVERYWHERE!

You are a smart guy, examine the facts, and do the math. And don't forget the left-wing elites in the arts, have an agenda.

Don't want to make this a slave thread, but it is central to the subject.

One other thing. If a native in some isolated island blows through his hand carved flute, he will make a sound. My book tells me that a 'note', is a sound frequency of a certain duration. That note the native blew, could most likely be found within any of Beethoven's Symphonies. That sort of thing is Physics, not culture or influence.

So now, should we consider all Cuban Music to be Spanish influenced African music?? :) I'm just saying. :)

Cheers