Jazz Guignard
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Jazz Guignard was a popular Haiti
an jazz
musician in the 1930s. He was distinguished by his completion of one of the first noncommercial recordings of Haitian music.
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
musician in the 1930s. He was distinguished by his completion of one of the first noncommercial recordings of Haitian music.