Jazz Generations Episode 2

Episode 2 - AFRO -> JAZZ & JAZZ -> AFRO: DIALOGUES, AN ETERNAL DIASPORA
Today’s “Jazz Generations” program reflects the dynamic interactions & rich dialogues between Afro American & Afro Caribbean artists & music cultures of the mid to late 20th century; examples of compositions as they were recorded by their composers: either Afro American Jazz or Afro Caribbean Jazz masters; and then as re-interpreted by musical cousins “on the other side of the clave”.

The “American Jazz” we are most familiar with, at its essence, is deeply ingrained with pulses, cultural traditions, literatures, formal evolutions, meanings – inherited long ago from the cultural Mother Africa. Jazz music - along with Afro Caribbean music - continues to inherit and contribute to the live music of today’s world. The deep African connection to American Jazz remains as a “coaxial cable to essential Blackness.” (Robert Ferris Thompson)