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Saturday, 14 January 2006 08:00 |
"Sendin' The Vipers"
Way back in the day when marijuana was something people smoked in Mexico or Mexicans brought with them to the United States & smoked quietly amongst themselves
there were musicians in New Orleans & Los Angeles & Chicago who were introduced to weed by their Mexican friends & began to apply its magical properties to the shaping of the new music
just then beginning to emerge from deep within the hearts & minds of a new generation of Americans born after the Emancipation of the slaves
& on or around the turning of a new century propelled by electricity & charged with the promise of a wild new kind of individual freedom
Way back in the day when the music that would be called jazz first issued forth from the trumpets & drums of musicians in New Orleans who knew how to make people dance
& took the music with them to Los Angeles in 1912 & Chicago a couple of years later & Joe "King" Oliver & his Creole Jazz Band came up from New Orleans to pack the cabarets & nightclubs
of the South Side with the sound of jazz & set the tempo for the development of the music for everyone who followed them
& in 1922 Joe Oliver called up Louis Armstrong to join him in Chicago & set the whole world on fire with their brilliant improvisations & the unbridled power of swing
New Orleans November 1998
from Viper Mad
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