Black music in Europe - a hidden history

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.