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Jazz in Africa
Hentoff, Nat | January 4, 1958 issue

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The article presents information on Jazz in Africa. Jazz is the result of a 300-years blending in the United States of the European and West African musical traditions. More than 300 years passed, however, before a representative American jazz group returned "home" to hear and be heard. The first American jazz combo to play in West Africa was Louis Armstrong's in May, 1956. The first extensive tour of the continent was undertaken by Wilbur de Paris. The journey began in Ghana on the Gold Coast, included Nigeria and Liberia, moved south to French Equatorial Africa and the Belgian Congo.

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JAZZ; MUSIC; ARMSTRONG, Louis, 1901-1971; MUSIC -- United States; AFRICA; UNITED States
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