At an early age, he was already exposed to music by playing the piano even from the written score. He was a well educated musician and an activist. He studied music at the Trinity College of Music London. Upon his return from abroad, he was exposed to highlight and Jazz and later on developed forbear music. He died in Some of the foreign and indigenous musical elements in forbear music of Fell Nikolas Kit are: JAZZ: This is a combination of elements of western music and characteristics traceable back to the music of west Africa.
The fundamental in distinguishing features of Jazz is based on simple melodies and complex cross-rhythms mixed with verbal slurs, vibrato and constant syncopation. Jazz music adopts much of the use of improvisation and syncopation. One of Fell’s reasons for his adoption of Jazz style into his music was because Jazz music had a lot of cultural information that enriched his mind. This he said in an interview with Walrus(1989). Some examples of Fell’s songs that have some elements of Jazz styles are: water, follow follow, way amongst others.
BLUES: This emerged from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple ballads in United States of America in the 20th century. It later became the roots of Jazz, rock and roll, hip hop and other popular music forms. The structural pattern of the blues is a basic twelve-bar lyric framework which is reflected by a standard harmonic progression of twelve bars, in 4/4 time. Slow blues are often laded in 12/8 (beats per measure with 3 subdivisions per beat).
In the harmony of blues, the use of harmonic seventh interval popularly called blues seven is a major characteristic. Another feature of the blues is the artistic imitation of instrumental sounds with their voices and to replicate aspects of the human voice with their instruments. Some examples of fell’s songs that have elements of blues are: Paella, you no go die amongst others. Fusion of western musical elements with African traditional musical elements in forbear By ladies
