What is shout music?
“It’s a gumbo,” says Gregory Patton, 52, a former Charlotte bandleader. A mix of gospel and jazz, shout music began in United House of Prayer parades in the 1920s. A band is mostly trombones – often a dozen – reaching up to heaven and pulling down inspiration. Pounding around them are a tuba or two, a bass drum, snare drum and other percussion instruments. The band can take an old-fashioned hymn and fill it with a lively holy spirit. The musicians demonstrate. First they play a straight version of a hymn, “Ease My Troubled Mind.” Even, smooth, plodding. Then they play the song as a shout, and they blow the roof off the place. With the first note, a small boy darts across the room and snatches up a tambourine. The bandleader blurts out a melody line on his trombone, and the band blares back support, riffing off his riff. Everyone is moving, stomping feet, rocking in their seats. The old men shout. “Give it to God!” The tambourine rattles. And it’s loud. It feels like a marching band and
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