And All that Jazz

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What is jazz? Jazz like any artistic phenomenon, represents the sum of an addition. The factors of this addition are, to my mind, African music, French and American music and folklore (Robert Goffin 1934) From its early origins in the Yoruba drumming of West Africa, blending with the European folk melodies in America, through the slave trade, through the bootlegger clubs of the Roaring Twenties and to the present day, jazz has been around the world, keeping the rhythms and melodies flowing and p...Vis mer