He thinks La La Land is an historic movie about the origins of Jazz which Kareem believes, wrongly is an African Music form so he condemns it because Ryan Gosling isn’t black. HERE. That’s like saying Louis Armstrong made the trumpet popular. He didn’t and Kareem is race-blinded.
It’s way OK for Kareem to support his race. It’s not OK for him to get a pass on history because he’s black.
As for the origins of Jazz, ask about the origins of music. Ask about the origins of musical instruments without which it’s impossible to play Jazz. Even Wikipedia informs that Jazz “originated” in New Orleans, a French founded place that’s far from Africa.
Was there Jazz in Africa? Wiki: “North African music has a considerable range, from the music of ancient Egypt to the Berber and the Tuareg music of the desert nomads. No jazz there, is there?

On his album Graceland, American folk musician Paul Simon employs African bands, rhythms and melodies especially Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In the early 1970s, Remi Kabaka, an Afro-rock avant-garde drummer, laid the initial drum patterns that created the Afro-rock sounds in bands such as Ginger Baker’s Airforce, The Rolling Stones, and Steve Winwood’s Traffic. He continued to work with Winwood, Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger throughout the decade. Where’s the Jazz? Ans. It’s not there.
I’ve personally spent quite a lot of time in Africa but not being black there were many, many places from which I was purposely excluded whether by culture, custom, skin color or military means so my African experiences while important to me don’t make me an expert on Africa. Same for Kareem who is a born and bred American, so how does he qualify as an expert on Jazz?
For example, The Bantu Swahili language is the most commonly spoken language in the African Great Lakes region serving as the official language of four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. No origins of Jazz are found there. the traditional music is based on drums, not horns like trumpets, clarinets or saxophones, or keyboards. Miles Davis wasn’t born in Africa. Neither was I but I’m not known as a jazz great. Miles is, and in my opinion he was the greatest. Miles was born in Illinois. Miles went to Juilliard.

Jazz has inspired more praise and more controversy than any other American music. Jazz, more than any other music, has been closely associated with the geographical, social, political, and economic affects of American cities as well as the fluctuating reputation of American culture throughout the world. Did you get that Kareem? Like you.

Jazz is America’s indigenous art form, having its birth and evolution in the United States. In 1987 the Joint Houses of Congress passed a resolution declaring jazz an American National Treasure. American.

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