Afro-diasporic roots

Practice · 19th c. · Caribbean, Louisiana · Roots and blues

Habanera, tresillo, "Spanish tinge" (Morton), brass bands and rhythmic practices of African and Caribbean origin: one of the sources of jazz, not to be reduced to a single city.

What is still debated

Congo Square is a symbolic link rather than a demonstrated one; three links to distinguish: documented lineage, rhythmic influence, memorial link.

What it gave rise to or influenced

• New Orleans
• Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban
• New Orleans jazz
• Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka)

Artists

• Joe Washington Brown & Austin Coleman (vocals)
• Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (vocals (vocal quartet))
• Fisk Jubilee Singers (vocals (choir and vocal quartet))

Tracks to start with

• Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground — Blind Willie Johnson (1927)
• Run, Old Jeremiah — Joe Washington Brown & Austin Coleman (1934)

Sources

• EN : Spanish tinge

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