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The Blues Story at Reduta Jazz Club
Courtesy of Reduta Jazz Club | Posted on July 31, 2015
Where
Reduta Jazz Club
Národní 20
Prague
Map
+420 737 773 343
When
Tue, March 15, 2016
21:30
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Musicians
Jan Korinek
organ, Hammond B3About
Our blues friend welcome you on famous concert from blues history!
The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves—African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music.
The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz...