Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-03-25 | Page 2 | Jazz Old French Music, Famous Critic Declares

Jazz Old French M Music sic Famous Critic Declares 0 P PARIS AmS March Match 24 AP Al'- Al' This AP-This This Is what Fortunat eminent French author and critic has discovered dis clis- clis covered about Jazz Tazz Jazz Is old French music on op which l Mississippi pt es grafted their African torn torn- tort tea rhythm America 1 Is merely the place where It was Incubated led add is not to be criticized by Frenchmen 1 M. M who is a member of or the Institute of ot France says aYs he made the the discovery discovery In a P. two two month months visit to the United States when he found puzzled time and again at t a familiar r. r something some he lie heard in the crooning voices of ot the negro negroes For a long time it eluded him then suddenly awoke to the fact that he was hearing the melodies melodies melodies melo melo- dies that the shepherd boys of ot Normandy Normandy Nor Nor- mandy and Pol Polton on sang years ago Then Dhen he rec recalled that the Mississippi Mississippi 1 sippi 1 basin of ot scores soares of ot moan moaning InK saxophone melodies was once all French He Ho remembered that the negroes of ot today are the d descendants of slaves wIro served d dod dold old od 1 French erich masters arid and that servants set set- set ser ot or latter-day latter Ameri Franco cans cans' still preserve traditions traditions' and melodies mc s of the tie motherland The The M. M ob observed oh- oh b- b served halve haive a hi highly dev developed sense of ot rhythm exemplified in the weIrd torn tom tom-tom m music of the African can t r At the Ule same san time tune he hes s says o's they haven't t th the slightest t gift of odY except In Ih Imitation their simple solution was solution was to graft their tom tom-tom om rhythm on thu tunes of the early Frenchmen The result was VaS Jazz The moral n r l I S tt 1 that tha t should Frenchmen n be Just a little bit Careful in In criticizing the taste of America for or you rou may be criticizing zI g at the s same mc time Inie the heer err ery life Ufe created ted by your I people he he- Ie S says