c.cloudwalker
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30's 50's blues? Your talking stuff that developed in France for crying out loud! For those who want to argue that, I am not saying blues started in France, because it didnt. I am just saying it was progressed further in France because the United States didnt want african americans coming back to the states after WWI so they fled to france where their music was LOVED. Josephine Baker (although she was a fraud) was in Paris, so was Stephan Grapelli, and Django Reinhardt, all great jazz musicains. Tin Pan ally, MONTMARTE, Quintette de Hot Club, Gare St. Lazzare all big places in the blues/jazz movement. Throw me some artists man! I want to hear what you guys used to listen to when you were my age!
Only one form of jazz developed in France. Can you name it? Blues sure didn't.
But there is one type of European music that I call the European Blues and they are closely related. Can you name that music also?
If you don't mind me asking: are you black? I've met more than one black person in the US who had relatives who fought in WW2 who regretted not staying there after the war. I don't blame those guys but things changed eventually and, today, it isn't that much better there than it is here.