Early jazz
by Gunther Schuller · first published 1968
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…Gillespie, Coltrane, Mingus, Pharaoh Sanders, Sun Ra, Miles and many others explored this African connection a lot. If you're interested in studying this further iirc Gunther Schuller discussed it in "Early Jazz" (one of the first books about Jazz History that actually isn't terrible from a musicological point of view) and Nicholas Cook also discusses it in "Music, Imagination and Culture" (which is an amazing…
on “Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana” ↗For anyone interested in the origins of jazz I recommend the book Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Schuller. It covers mostly 1920-1930 and a bit of its origins is west Africa.
on “Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star” ↗