Jazz for aficionados

We can not have world music without Japanese input;


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eys1vNuY8-Y

Interesting how there can be disagreement about something when there is truth to both sides of the argument.  What is being missed is the connection to the earlier (barely) discussion about the mystery of the influence that genetics may play on what type of music resonates with each of us.

One of the first and recurring debates here concerns the origins of jazz. One camp claims that, contrary to just about every scholarly and pacticing musician’s opinion on the subject, jazz sprang up in America independent of and immune to any possible influence by the ethnicity (genetics) of its “creators”, or influence by the societal circumstances around them. The other camp believes that jazz is an art form that is a big melting pot of influences; African, European and Middle Eastern. A closer, and less emotional, look at what defines jazz gives credence to the second viewpoint, imo.

Django Reindhart famously said, upon hearing Louis Armstrong play for the first time (as acman3 points out) “My brother!”. To my way of thinking that comment says it all. If one looks at the makeup of Jazz and the many influences that came to bear in its creation, it is no mystery to me why jazz would resonate with a Gypsy guitarist who had never heard “it” before, but whose more familiar music was in some ways, however removed, one of the ingredients in the pot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IW0nOgrwwy4

And, of course Armstrong would have been impressed upon hearing Django for the first time. For starters, no one had played guitar like that before.

A long time ago, there was a dispute in which Rok was right, but rather than side with Rok, I stated we should let "Wiki" decide.


Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States,[1] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.[2] Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music".[3] Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation.[4] Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music.[5] Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".[6]


Like it or not, this is the impartial way we make decisions of this nature on this thread.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVpN8Jxi_Xs


This was the intended cut.

Funny how we tend to see what we want to see, and ignore what doesn’t fit our political agenda. From the same Wiki article:

**** all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage ****

Parentage:

a : descent from parents or ancestors : lineage

And, as with most Wiki articles, this is just scratching the surface. Btw, the person who was “right” (Not!), was the same person who incessantly ridiculed the person who was “wrong” (Not!) for being foolish enough to quote a Wiki article. I hereby hand over the coveted and previously held title of “Wikiman” 😊