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Thanks all guys for replying. My goal with the thread wasn't nessicarily the dropping of names but more detailed information would be appreciated if anyone knows of course. AI gives me this: 🇺🇸 Randy Weston Nationality: American Country in Africa: Morocco (primarily Tangier) Period: From 1967, approximately 5+ years resident Type of stay: Long-term residence Activities: Relocated to Tangier after a U.S. State Department African tour Founded the African Rhythms Club Collaborated extensively with Gnawa musicians Integrated North and West African rhythmic structures into jazz composition Significance: A central figure in Afrocentric jazz philosophy, framing jazz as part of a larger African continuum. 🇺🇸 Don Cherry Nationality: American Country in Africa: Morocco (including Jajouka, Rif Mountains) Period: Mid-1960s onward (no fixed documented residency length) Type of stay: Extended immersion periods Activities: Lived and performed with local musicians (including the Master Musicians of Jajouka) Studied ritual and collective musical forms Developed an early “world jazz” approach integrating African and non-Western traditions 🇺🇸 Robert "Juice" Wilson Nationality: American Country in Africa: Morocco (Tangier) Period: Settled in 1936 (exact duration unclear but long-term) Type of stay: Emigration Activities: Performed in Tangier’s International Zone jazz scene Became part of one of the earliest North African jazz communities 🇺🇸 Benjamin Boone Nationality: American Country in Africa: Ghana (Accra) Period: Approx. 1 year Type of stay: Fulbright residency / academic exchange Activities: Research in Ghanaian music traditions Performances and recordings with local musicians Cross-cultural jazz collaboration 🇺🇸 René McLean Nationality: American Country in Africa: South Africa (notably Cape Town) Period: Mid-1980s to late-1990s Type of stay: Long-term residence / educator Activities: Consultant at Mmabana Cultural Center Faculty member at University of Cape Town Developed jazz education and research programs 🇺🇸 T. K. Blue Nationality: American Countries in Africa: Multiple (West and North Africa) Period: Repeated stays over several decades Type of stay: Extended project-based residencies Activities: Cultural exchange leadership Performances and Afro-diasporic research Longstanding collaborations rooted in African traditions 🇩🇪/🇺🇸 Volker Goetze Nationality: German-American Country in Africa: Senegal (West Africa) Period: Long-running collaborations (2000s–present) Type of stay: Repeated extended artistic residencies Activities: Close collaboration with griot master Ablaye Cissoko Album production and intercultural composition Deep engagement with Senegalese musical traditions 🇫🇷 Martial Solal Nationality: French (born in French Algeria) Country in Africa: Algeria (Algiers) Period: Youth until 1950 Type of stay: Upbringing and early musical formation Activities: Developed early jazz language in Algiers Studied and performed before relocating to Paris 🇫🇷 Didier Malherbe Nationality: French Country in Africa: Morocco (Tangier) Period: 1964–1965 Type of stay: Extended stay / musical immersion Activities: Lived in an artistic community Absorbed Arabic modal systems and rhythmic concepts 🇫🇷 Barney Wilen Nationality: French Countries in Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso Period: 1969–1970 Type of stay: Extended travel and field recording Activities: Recorded material later released as Moshi / Moshi Too Documented and incorporated local musical traditions 🇺🇸 Al Cohn, 🇺🇸 Billy Mitchell, 🇺🇸 Dolo Coker, 🇺🇸 Leroy Vinnegar, 🇺🇸 Frank Butler Country in Africa: Senegal (Dakar) Period: 1980 Type of stay: Live recording session Activities: Recorded the live album Xanadu in Africa in Dakar Among the earlier documented bebop recordings on African soil 🇺🇸 Archie Shepp Nationality: American Countries in Africa: Primarily Algeria; also broader Pan-African engagements Period: Late 1960s–1970s (notably participation in the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers) Type of stay: Extended visits / cultural-political engagement Activities: Participated in the Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969) Engaged with African liberation movements and musicians Incorporated African political consciousness and musical elements into his work Significance: Key figure linking avant-garde jazz with Pan-Africanism. 🇺🇸 Steve Reid Nationality: American Country in Africa: Ghana (primarily), extended West African engagement Period: 1970s (several years living in West Africa) Type of stay: Long-term residence / study Activities: Lived in Ghana studying traditional percussion Immersed himself in African rhythmic systems Integrated African polyrhythmic concepts into spiritual and free jazz contexts

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Maybe partly because my eyesight is not great but I have never understood the appeal of accessing the internet on a smartphone.  I have an iphone and love it because it's a phone, an alarm clock/stop-watch, a decent camera, a compass, navigation system for car, an ok music player in a pinch with headphones, etc.  But I don't generally look at things like photos or even mail on the phone.  If I take photos I look at them on a pc.  Email - pc. Social media - pc.  You-tube and spotify - pc.  Newspapers - pc. Those phone screens are too small, the speaker sound is horrible, and it's hard to maintain good posture while using them.  If I'm gonna squint I'll squint at something bigger like a biggish monitor.      Leaving the device aside, I agree with you about all the distraction of phone/social media etc life.  These last few years I have spent so much time doom-scrolling.  Recently I got very fed up with being over-stimulated and frustrated and have begun to go back to my old, pre-internet habits of reading books all the time.  Stories are good entertainment and they provide a comforting way for us to see a bigger picture from a lofty vantage point where the beginning, middle and end are available to us, unlike our moment to moment experience which is just now and where the endings of things are unknown.