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Visited last September from UK. I learned about this special place in music history from the Sonny Landrith song. Very quiet on a weekday lunchtime, but I was very happy to sit there and try to drink in some of its past.
That’s Baba Luther Gray at 1:48. With the gray hair. I went to Congo Square last year and met him there on a Sunday. He taught me everything about the Congo Square. If you get the chance to meet him, consider yourself blessed. You will learn a LOT.
I want to hear more about the roots of jazz.... What parts of Africa (I guess mainly the Congo Basin?) and what rhythms exactly.. Are there some percussionist who can demonstrate the types of trad rhythms which fed into the mix? Names?
She details Europeans origin but can’t even said that they were various ethnic African groups or other native Americans ethnic besides saying indigenous 😑 she lack of information
She mentioned Haiti, but a large number of African slaves in New Orleans were brought there from other parts of the U.S. after the the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. There were very few records of where the Africans originated for 3 primary reasons - 1 - is because Africa had not yet been divided into countries, 2 - most of them came there from northern states, not Africa, and 3 - the Africans origins were from various locations with different languages.
