I have posted this CALYPSO many times before, but I am posting it again amidst the PANORAMA EUPHORIA and the STRAYING of PAN from CALYPSO at PANORAMA.
Yuh think we could go to New Orleans and say we have JAZZ? So stick to your CALYPSO and doh make me feel SAD -- because CALYPSO and STEELBAND is the CULTURE OF TRINIDAD!!!
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'Early forms of calypso were heavily influenced by jazz such as Sans Humanitae, the extempo melody in which calypsonians lyricise impromptu, commenting socially or insulting each other, without humanity—once again the French influence. Many calypso chord progressions can be linked to twelve bar jams in jazz as demonstrated by Lord Kitchener, one of the most famous calypsonians and a melodic genius'. They both come from the soul of one family, the African soul. Smoke that!
Trinidadians honestly don't know what dey want.
MY CORN TREE --- The Last Bardjohn of Calypso