How Allen Toussaint Could Save The World

Recently, I was part of a long conversation, on the web, about the notion of musical de-evolution.

I have decided that if aliens from deep space came here and were in the process of assessing the overall worthiness of the human race, using musical evolution as the criteria to decide whether or not to vaporize our species and, upon sampling the lexicon from tribal mutterings to Gregorian chants to Chanson and parlor music to the structural integrity of symphonic presentations, requiring discipline and participation on through to Quartal harmony and serial composition to syncopated rhythms of the blues the sophisticated freedom of jazz, the energy of early rock and roll, the anarchic bravado of punk, somehow skipped the 80s hair movement, caught some incendiary early hip hop and somehow…by mistake, fate or Divine intervention stumbled across this clip of Allen Toussaint…..well then, I guess we’d be OK.

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