Rok, I know Wynton is your main man, but Africa in "hard-bop" is truly rediculous. That's where the trolly jumped the tracks; he might as well said that African Americans are speaking in "Ojibway" or some tribal language without knowing it.
Because I can't hear African in the jazz drums doesn't mean it's not there. The drumer doesn't know he's putting out some African beats because they're in code.
Rok, this is Frogmans paragraph, could you translate it for me?
"First, the fact that any one listener cannot “hear” African rhythms as the listener knows and understands them in jazz does not mean that those rhythms are not there; or, at least, serve as the foundation for those jazz rhythms as they are understood. It is like insisting that European based chord progressions and harmony do not exist in the music because the listener cannot hear them as such."
Call this the 'hard-bop' African drum code.