Ghana: Encounter with African jazz godfather

  1. Posted on Monday 27 August 2007 - 15:34
    AfricaNews editor
    Nana Kofi Acquah, AfricaNews reporter in Accra, Ghana
    AfricaNews - During and after the era of the transatlantic slave-trade, Jazz as a music form with deep African roots morphed into the many styles of African- American, Afro-Cuban, Puerto Rican, Brazilian and Dominican Jazz , generally losing the African-ness in the diverse forms, as time passed, in the diaspora.
    Ghanaba

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