Prehistory of jazz

[Alyn_Shipton]

In case any of you boardees are about on Sunday, this might be of interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...sunday-feature

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for the alert, Alyn.

(Mind, some are more interested in music from the stoned age )

[burning dog]

Great subject for a programme...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wot being stoned?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

wot being stoned?

"He said 'Jehovah'!"

[Serial_Apologist]

Yo man!

[Quarky]

That makes 4.25 hours of Jazz this weekend.

Somebody's doing something right!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i am a witness! i saw my own prehistory - how i wish you could have been there yeah!

[Serial_Apologist]

i am a witness! i saw my own prehistory - how i wish you could have been there yeah!

Breeze block backdrop - there must have been other hard times...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

new brutalism innit ....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yet AGAIN blinkered Jazz historians fail to recognise the essential role of Wales in the birth of jazz. In the late 1880s the Rhondda miner Dai ap Coleman was infamous throughout the valley as he hammered his pit props in to a "Bo Diddley" type beat. Horses danced, all work stopped and 600 jiving colliers (some in frocks) were shot dead by the coal owners.

Dai escaped on a coracle to Memphis with only a jug, his boots and his musical pit hammer. And his militant "attittude". The rest is music history. My two hour subtitled Doc on S4C is pending and will be a "must see". Ken Loach is producing a big screen version subject to the casting of Sir Tony Hopkins

"From Dai to Diddley"

BN - Phd. Univ N.Pontypridd.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

betcha you scored to this in the chapel hall dances

[Alyn_Shipton]

Wales's greatest jazz export is featured here - at around 4.33:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

my father knew Dill Jones [not kidding boozers innit]

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Lambert, Hendricks and Aneurin Bevan.

He was no substitute for Annie.

BN.