Blues People: Negro Music in White America Jazz-Funk and avant-garde elegance

and avant-garde elegance

Let the world know you live for the groove

When You Are Who You Are 3:01

and networks that nurtured jazz’s mid-century ascent

Parliament – Mothership Connection (Vinyl LP

Blues People: Negro Music in White America Jazz-Funk and avant-garde elegance"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." Langston Hughes "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's musicthrough the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American