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African Jazz, Jazz from Africa, AfroJazz?
Music travels… It follows the rhythm of the long march of men…
It speaks to us its language wherever it comes from, and sometimes we understand it.
The music blossoms, winds, integrates, merges… then resurfaces, elsewhere, differently, where we did not expect it… faster or slower, louder or softer, heckled, syncopated or suddenly mellowed…
Her voice is hoarse, as when she has drunk too much and smoked too much, or light as a summer breeze, which whispers in your ear that the sun has risen and that it is high time to open one eye, at least…
In its long journeys, music has followed the instruments and the men who play them… from port to port, from coast to coast… And the tools for making sound, just like those who play them, speak and answer to each other, call and seek each other, to give meaning to their conversation.
Much of what we listen to today has its roots in the heart of Africa, followed the slave route, grew up in the cotton fields, exploded into multiple styles, from “negro spirituals” and Gospel, to Blues, Jazz, Rock, Hip Hop. And its evolution is not finished…
These same rhythms then returned to their motherland and the musicians of Africa took them in their hands, reintegrated them. They mixed them by drawing again from the roots, the tradition, the roots merging with their musical offspring. A natural reappropriation.
And the movement continues, and will continue, like a slow pendulum, like a gentle rocking in the arms of the mother…
Enjoy this African Jazz Playlist! 🌍
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The above text is a quick translation of the post I published in French here (contains a playlist too).