Jazz for aficionados

I was listening to an album by Aretha Franklin titled "Aretha Sings The Blues" and she was singing these very mature lyrics of a woman who had been around and seen the world, but after I got engrossed in these worldly blues songs, I happened to notice how young her voice sounded; it had the youth of the same voice I heard in 65.

Sure enough, that was when these songs were recorded; at about the same time I saw a young Aretha perform in Detroit. That brought back such wonderful memories, and it's for sure I could use some good memories about now. That was when Detroit Michigan was a fantastic city; it was the most prosperous city I had ever been to, before or since; it seemed that everyone had a brand new car and dressed elegant. I almost stayed in Detroit, but I didn't like the weather.



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Frogman, this link is very important to the music in "Salvador Bahia". It's impossible to separate the specific music I'm speaking of from "Capoeira", neither exist without the "Berimbau".

The music I'm speaking of exists independent of "Capoeira" but not independent of the "Berimbau". Brazilian musicians who are not into "Capoeira" utilize the Berimbau.


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You certainly won't find this on the continent of Africa, yet it is very African.


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Capoeira is analogous to Santeria in the Caribbean Islands; both were developed by slaves transplanted to other countries in order to disguise the true purpose of the practices. Capoeira was developed in Brazil, ostensibly as a dance, to disguise the fact that it was a fighting technique; not something that slave owners would condone for obvious reasons. In the Caribbean, Santeria was a way for the slaves to practice their outlawed native religions by giving the native deity the names of Roman Catholic saints.

The reason that it is not found in Africa is simple; it was never there.

Nolatet

Frogman, I'm basing my thesis on a Brazilian film festival that lasted two weeks where they had movies from all parts of Brazil, not just what we see in Rio, and Bahia, but the interior of Brazil as well. These movies were about getting to know the entire country, and the music was incidental to the movies, not all of the music was even Afro Brazil, although I heard some Afro Brazilian music that was very unique, but I can't find it.


Africa is a continent, not a country; those countries are European boundaries that put tribes who hate each other together, and to add to the confusion; before slavery, Africa was divided into "villages", and tribal areas, not cities. Each village had it's own rhythms and dances, which are presented by different dance troops based in New York. When they present these dances, they specify what "village" the dance is from, and from what part of Africa that village could be found, and last, what country that part of Africa is now called.


I am basing my statements on nothing but my musical ear, and what I've heard that was Afro in Brazil which is so different from anything I've heard from Africa. I stated that some of Africa was transported to the America's and no longer exists on that continent. I still believe this but it is impossible to prove.