Jazz music of Barbados
The Jazz is a genre of music from the United State which reached Barbados by the end of 1920’s. The first main performer in the island was...
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Jazz is a genre of music from the United State which reached Barbados by the
end of 1920’s. The first main performer in the island was Lionel Gittens, who
was followed by Percy Green, Maggie Goodrige and clevis Gittens. These
bandleaders played a variety of music that includes the swing a kind of pop
jazz, Barbadian calypso and walzes.
As
a political awareness among the black majority on the island spread, so did
bebop, a kind of jazz which was associated in the United States with social
activism and Afrocentrism. The first Barbadian bebop musician from the island
was Keith Campbell, a pianist who had learned to play several styles while
living in Trinidad during a time when American soldiers were stationed there,
providing a ready market for bands that could play American music.
