jazz
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Celebrate Black History Month with a cinema supper club, Sunday jazz brunch, a community walk in Hyde Park and more.
From Los Angeles Times
It developed from Korean folk traditions, while drawing influence from Japanese enka and Western styles such as jazz, according to music critic Jung Minjae.
From BBC
Among the first of the mid-century jazz greats to have his own record label, Sun Ra is asked what he’s going to record.
Dubbed the “Harlem of the West,” Central Avenue was the hub for Black art, literature and music, particularly jazz, between the 1920s and 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
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