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Post by sztiv on Aug 21, 2023 12:09:27 GMT
Not sure that this so called "hidden history" has eluded many of you but I for one hadn't realised that Evan Parker played with Brotherhood of Breath. Neither do I know anything about Algerian music. I'm fed up to the back teeth with the culture wars, which is one of the reasons I try to avoid social media - not that I had any bad experiences amongst this tiny community of jazz fans. And so when my 83 year old mother sent me a link to this, I was sceptical. But actually it's rather good. Anyway sharing is caring as I try to impress upon my 4 year old daughter. Hope you enjoy it. PS the previous episodes are also good. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yldw
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Post by bassman on Aug 23, 2023 8:04:03 GMT
Thanks for sharing the link, Sztiv.
Now this is one thing about Black music. In the first place, I like jazz because it is jazz. To see jazz as purely black music, as it were, is a view that can be held, and fodder for a nice argument. Being neither a musicologist nor a critic, I'd rather abstain from weighing in on this question.
Funny you are mentioning Evan Parker (who was indeed one of the founding fathers of Brotherhood) so prominently in your post. Again, I'd rather abstain from classifying his music - and the people he worked with - in terms of "blackness", but I suppose that was not your point.
Considering myself a jazz lover, African or Caribbean rhythms as such do sound more accessible to me (and to most of us here, I expect) than, say, Algerian music. Still, I've never been into reggae music, to be honest. Nice groove, no doubt, but that's about it.
I am still to find out more about Clarke Peters' series, and if its focus is mainly on the British scene, and styles such as reggae & Co.
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