[Dixielandjazz] Spanish songs from New Orleans

[Joe Carbery]

I think the triplet feel may have come from European dance music, such as
polkas and Scottish & Irish reels. While listening to a polka on a
classical channel the other day it struck me that it wouldn't take much to
convert it into a swing feel (which is really a 12/8 feel.)

Joe Carbery.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> I’ve always wondered if the claims of Spanish and Caribbean influences on
> early jazz were exaggerated. The tango craze and Morton’s few left hand
> tango rhythms are cited, but I don't hear a more widespread or pervasive
> influence in early jazz The Spanish flamenco dance rhythms, with tapping
> and castanets, seem a good candidate, but the where do those show up in
> early jazz? I’d like to be convinced otherwise, but it seems that ragtime
> syncopations that carried over to jazz and the fluid triplet feeling of
> jazz phrasing are dependably derived from African sources. Any help from
> you-all would be appreciated.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> > On Oct 23, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Kevin Yeates <kyeates at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have greatly enjoyed the few Spanish tunes I have heard that are in
> the trad jazz genre. Unfortunately they seem to be few and far between (or
> my massive musical ignorance is on full display). I know of The Cure, and
> St Louis Blues with its Latin part. After that I am running short on tunes.
> >
> > Could some of those more knowledgeable on this list provide the names of
> some other "Spanish" tunes?
> > Kevin YeatesVancouver, Canada
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