Jazz for aficionados

Some of the things I've written might seem controversial, but in my mind they're not even the least bit controversial.

Before the Portuguese went to Brazil, there was just the native inhabitants and Anacondas there making music; that means any music coming from Brazil was made by the Native South Americans, and Anacondas. After the Portuguese it's possible to have included their music with the Anacondas, and the native inhabitants. I don't think that music at all resembled present day Brazilian music.

Something had to be added to the Anacondas, Native Americans, plus the Portuguese music to make the music that is so common in Brazil today. Could it have come in on those slave ships I see on the horizon? Could it have sounded like this.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KznlNRyjUg&t=44s


The interesting thing about this music is that although it sounds African, it's not so common on that continent. I "theorized" that some music left the continent of Africa permanently.

First of all, before slavery, Africa existed in "villages", not cities; villages were much smaller. Africans identified themselves by tribe and village. Nigeria was one of the few places with big cities and armies, Nigeria also did most of the slave capturing.

Slaves were imprisoned in a factory while awaiting shipment. Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years. That's a lot of slaves and a lot of "villages".

Each village had it's on peculiar rhythms and dances. It stands to reason that some of those rhythms and dances no longer exist on the continent of Africa, but only exist in this hemisphere because the entire village was transported over here on a slave ship.

My ears have detected rhythms that are common in Brazilian music which are African in nature, but are uncommon on the continent of Africa. If those rhythms came from Africa, but are no longer heard on that continent, what other explanation could there be?

We can appreciate the music, but some find it inappropriate to examine the people who made the music; is that so? Makes no sense to me.

@orpheus10 

<<It stands to reason that some of those rhythms and dances no longer exist on the continent of Africa, but only exist in this hemisphere because the entire village was transported over here on a slave ship>>

This is more reasonable than your previous blanket statement that raised so many hackles: "the musical soul of Sub Sahara Africa sailed away on a slave ship."

That musical soul is still there - it is featured weekly on WPFW in DC.  You're imagining that village-based musical cultures were wiped out and that nothing was left of West African music.  But that "musical soul" was deeply ingrained across that entire swath of the continent.  Sure, individual villages were decimated, but the centuries-old musical culture survived.

I have decided, it's a moot point.

Isn't she beautiful;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfGMIJqyYk

Somethin’ Else, led by Cannonball Adderley with a rare appearance of Miles Davis as payback for Adderley’s turn on Kind of Blue.  Autumn Leaves, the first track, is alone worth the price of admission but there is so much more.  Yes, and the rhythm section is Hank Jones, Philly Joe Jones and Art Blakey.