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Jazz the Professor
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Listening requires a certain skill set. Knowledge is power. Class is always in session. Come prepared. Very low tolerance for conscientious stupidity.

Mar 13, 2022, 5 tweets

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#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe says his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra has the best Black musicians in NYC: “we colored people have our own music that is a part of us. It’s the product of our souls. It’s been created by the sufferings & miseries of our race.
#History

#OTD Mar 13, 1914 James Reese Europe, ragtime & jazz bandleader, arranger & composer, explains his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra as having the best Black musicians in NYC. When he joined the 15th Regiment & the WW I military band in the 1910s history was made.
#History

“The Jazz germ hit them and it seemed to find the vital spot. Loosening all muscles and causing what is known in American as an eagle rocking it”

#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe explains his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra has the best Black musicians in NYC.
#History #Jazz

“We won France by playing music which was ours & not a pale imitation of others. If we are to develop in America, we must develop along our own lines”

#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe says his Clef Club Symphony Orchestra has the best Black musicians in NYC.
#History #Jazz

“Ragtime may be Negro music, but it is American Negro music, more alive than other American music & Europe was one of the Americans who was contributing most to its development”

#OTD Mar 13, 1914: James Reese Europe says Clef Club Symphony Orchestra best Black musicians
#History

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