Art Blakey’s Comments on Ritual

In 1947, after the [?] band broke up, we took a trip to Africa and were supposed to stay there and I stayed two years because I wanted to live among the people find out hopw they live, about the drums especially
the ija people, who are very interestinj people, they live sorta primitive, the drum is the most important instrument there. anything that happens that day that is good, they play about it that night. this particular thing caught my еar of the differetn rhythms, thе first movement was by [?] she was very pretty girl , they wanted her and this particulsr one, he went out, the guys would these 'em a lot because he was the shortest one in the tribe and he went out and he was the best hunter, and he went out with the girl this time would
and the second movement is a movement qwhere the little girl, she wantesd to go out and play and the mother didn't want her to go out and play and tyhere was an argument going on between the two and so the drummer would play
for the little boy who persuaded his mtioehr so they played about it
and the last part of it is about — i have a bit of american movements in here— but the last bit of it is the first time they'd seen an automobile that day
and that's the reason I put some american movement on the drums [?] they played about it that day