Zufallsfund bei Recherchen rund um Ahmed Abdul-Malik… Ansonsten sind „diese Leute“ ja eher gegen das Wort Jazz, insofern fand ich diese Ausführungen von Abdul-Maliks Sideman Bilal Abdurahman ganz interessant… (von hier)
The terms Jass, Jas, Jazz in my estimation are very significant. I feel certain that earlier generations of Africans on American soil may have coined the term as an exclamation or expression describing the overall sponataneity or vitality of the ‚then newly formulating music‘. The New Orleans of Congo Square fame, probably still harbors many such secrets. Another probability is that the word Jazz may have stemmed from an Arab source due to the early intermingling of African and Arab culture through Islam. In Arabian each scale of seven (tones) is called a maqam. ‚Maqam‘ originally being the name of the stage on which singers performed for the Caliph. Hijaji is the name of one such maqam.
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The hijaji maqam is said to ‚fill the soul with grief‘, note the close affinity with the so called blues modes of the African American tradition.[…]
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