Onttype16. What is World Music?
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Origins of World Music[edit]
Bennie Maupin, multi-instrumentalist, and crucial contributor to Miles Davis's landmark jazz-rock fusion album, "Bitches Brew," reports during his September 2 interview at the 2006 Detroit International Jazz Festival that Yusuf Lateef (the former William Emanuel Huddleston, later Evans) pioneered what now gets called World Music.[1]
Maupin supplies as some of his reasons that it was Lateef who not only promoted multi-instrumentalism through his own playing of saxophones, flute, oboe, and bassoon, but many musical instruments from around the world including the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul, Japanese koto, and a collection of Chinese wooden flutes all of which require learning multiple techniques to play.
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- ↑ Bennie Maupin Interview by interviewer Howard Mandel at the 2006 Detroit International Jazz Festival Jazz Talk Tent on Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 5:30 pm.