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Real Jazz was specifically "African American", it emanated from the depths of the souls of those ghettos in Chicago and New York; I am referring to urban "Modern Jazz".Miles Davis, has been given far too much credit for being the spokesman for thi... 
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LAY OFF THE "WIKIMAN" JUICE. 
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Bop that sounds like music, and just any run of the mill sound called Bop are two entirely different things; "Bird's" Bop is listenable. 
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Rok, you need some blasting powder and a drill. 
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"Teenage romance and big, fast, over the top American cars. I will always be thankful I was young during those days."You got that right, I was just thinking of the beautiful "Venita"; those girls will always stay ever so beautiful in your memory... 
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Although I have never been into any kind of music other than jazz, Chuck Berry has been with me all my life; or every since school when all the other kids were into Rock and Roll, which meant Chuck Berry's "Maybellene".I recall sneaking into the b... 
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"I just thank God it's all over," said Aaron, who endured months of media interviews, near-constant scrutiny, and death threats and hate mail. He had hired a bodyguard, needed to find temporary living quarters in Atlanta, and registered under a fa... 
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Rok, your post hit the nail dead on the head; there is nothing I can add or subtract. 
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"Wikiman" I have lived jazz for my entire life, I don't need any musicians to tell me about it; especially bourgeois musicians, regardless how accomplished. I knew African American musicians who could not even read music, but they were able to ex... 
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Ghosthouse, that reminded me of when I was on this old steam locomotive puffing across the Congo; I can still see the natives waving as we pass and elephants screeching in the distance. 
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Lay it on me dude, I want to hear it too; the afro in the Bebop, before Diz added it onto the Rebop and called it "Afrobop". But since he did it without consulting the "Bird" that would make it "illegitimate", and not worthy of my consideration. 
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What does Voodoo have to do with "Bebop"? 
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Peter King made a nice tribute to "Bird". 
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Alex, I thought those posts to be good examples of "Afro-Jazz", while what we were discussing was Afro input into the origination of "Bebop", which is different.What you have posted is the Afro inclusion after the music had been developed, and it'... 
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Alex, presently, we are discussing "Bebop" specifically and not jazz in general. Rok's major complaint is when you talk about jazz currently, anything goes; it's kind of like "Mulligan stew", throw anything in the pot and call it "Mulligan stew".