Azizi,

It looks like you accidentally overlooked my last post, in which I wrote:


>>"Btw, lox, I strongly disagree with your statement that "Jazz does >>not trace back to an african american ancestor.""
>>
>>By this I meant that unlike blues, Jazz has a Europen father and an >>African mother - or if you prefer, an African father and a European >>mother.


So while blues traces directly back to an African american vocal tradition and while it uses scales with ambiguous notes that come from African musical tradition, the same cannot be said of Jazz.


Jazz has from day one been a multicultural exercise. This is probably why it went on to absorb other cultural influences into its vocabulary later on in the fusion projects of the seventies and eighties, from Indian classical to Flamenco, because it is inclusive by nature, having been born that way and as it has grown up it has naturally wanted to include music that it hasn't met before.

Truly the music of the revolution in my book.