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Jungle Jazz
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As with most settings, jungles tend to have certain types of music associated with them. Think of a jungle, and you might imagine tribal drums, maybe some exotic instruments like the panflute or kalimba... but sometimes, you get swingy and brassy music instead. Perhaps this is because jungles are perceived as colorful and diverse environments, which makes them conducive to some fun and catchy jazz. Expect to see jungle animals such as monkeys, birds, elephants, or others as musicians. When animal musicians appear, an elephant will likely play on its trunk like a trumpet or saxophone, and monkeys or apes will drum on tree trunks, coconuts or their own chest. A crocodile's teeth may be played like a xylophone. "Swing" is both a type of jazz, and what monkeys and apes do on vines. The association may also have something to do with how in the 1920s and '30s, some racists dismissed all jazz as "jungle music", and jazz bands responded by owning that particular nickname. Of course, the romanticized notion of the jungle was also pretty popular at that time (see for example King Kong (1933) and the Tarzan films), so jazz bands and Tin Pan Alley songwriters were more than happy to milk that trend for all it was worth. Jazz music may also be associated with jungles because it was created by musicians of African descent, whose original homeland is stereotypically imagined as untamed tropical wilderness. This trope may overlap with Creepy Jazz Music if it is associated with that kind of jungle, and if the music sounds fittingly scary, but more often this music is kind of fun and frolicking. For more musical location associations, see Steel Drums and Sunshine, Snowy Sleigh Bells, Waltz on Water, and Regional Riff. |
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Donkey Kong Country has "Jungle Hijinx," which starts out with tribal drums and ambient jungle sounds, leading up to a swingy tune. | |
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Donkey Kong Country Returns has the jazzy theme that plays during the Rocket Barrel sections. Played with, as it's mainly associated with the jungle-dwelling Kongs; it wouldn't actually appear in proper jungle levels until Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. | |
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LittleBigPlanet's Savannah Theme, which plays in the African jungle-based area, mixes tribal chants with jazz in its Variable Mix. | |
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Donkey Kong's Jungle Adventure in Mario Party. | |
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The 1947 song "Civilzation" (performed by such artists as Louis Prima, but Fallout fans will be most familiar with the version by Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters) is a jazzy tune about a Congolese native mocking some missionaries and their attempts to preach the benefits of Western civilization. | |
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Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong Country has "Jungle Hijinx," which starts out with tribal drums and ambient jungle sounds, leading up to a swingy tune. Donkey Kong Country Returns has the jazzy theme that plays during the Rocket Barrel sections. Played with, as it's mainly associated with the jungle-dwelling Kongs; it wouldn't actually appear in proper jungle levels until Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Donkey Kong's Jungle Adventure in Mario Party. There's also "Jungle Japes" from the Super Smash Bros. series. |
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The third area of Runman Race Around The World is Jungle Japes whose soundtrack includes such classics like Duke Ellington's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (for the area map) or Luis Russel's "The New Call of the Freaks" (for the actual stages). | |
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Monster Hunter: World: Rajang's Leitmotif in the Iceborne expansion contains several brassy elements. | |
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In Tarzan, "Trashin' The Camp" is a jazzy, scatting musical number sung by a band of gorillas (and one elephant). It's the only song in the movie performed by on-screen characters rather than an off-screen Phil Collins. | |
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The Jungle Book (1967), like with a few other Disney films, contains some upbeat jazz numbers, in this case sung by the more fun-loving jungle animals. Most noteworthy are "Bare Necessities" sung by Baloo the sloth bear, and "I Wan'na Be Like You," sung by King Louie and his apes. The latter was sung by Louis Prima, who also lent his name to Canon Foreigner King Louie as well as played him. Prima also played the Trumpet Solo whiles his band, Sam Beutera and the Witnesses, performed the initial lyrics. The scat exchange between Louie and Baloo was originally supposed to be Baloo repeating Louie's scat, but actor Phil Harris' improvised Scat impressed Prima enough to be included in the song. The soundtrack version has Beutera in the role of Baloo and merely repeating the scat of Prima's Louie. The sequel adds the jazzy ensemble number "Jungle Rhythm". | |
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The Betty Boop short "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" involved Betty's adventures on a jungle expedition. Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the clown are menaced by tribe of cannibals—who are all caricatures of Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (who also provide the cartoon's whole soundtrack). | |
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The 1930 Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid short "Congo Jazz" is about Bosko going to a jungle to hunt wild animals, but instead he ends up dancing and playing jazz music with them. | |
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Kirby and the Rainbow Curse: "Watch Out For That Sloth" is a jazzy tune that plays in the level "Deep-Divin' Kirby Submarine," in which Kirby transforms into a submarine and rides through a jungle river while enemy sloths throw projectiles at him. | |
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