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Originally Posted by Bop Head
Yes I hear it too. Sometimes I think the main difference between prewar jazz and blues was instrumentation.
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07-06-2024 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
So, if you give this the standard I-IV-V treatment, you're going to completely change the nature of the song. Wait, isn't that precisely what the Brit Blues boys did with a lot of this old material?
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
Fascinated to see Winthrop Sergeant's presentation of the blues scale:
If one can reduce musical vocabulary to a scale (the equivalent of reducing speech to an alphabet), that's pretty much where T-Bone Walker lives.
From a purely theoretical viewpoint, it's a combination of the minor pentatonic and major hexatonic and contains both the major and relative minor blues scales - C, D, Eb, E, G, A / A, C, D, Eb, E, G. The first of these gets a lot less press than the latter but it's a basic ingredient in the lines of T-Bone's musical heir, BB King.
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Originally Posted by PMB
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Originally Posted by PMB
And naturally Charlie Christian
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Originally Posted by PMB
On a more serious note, I think it is interesting to look back musically from time to time and see what and how stuff still resonates in you.
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And on a even more serious note and back to the OP's topic:
Even in the very early blues recordings there where two streams: the more modal, "more African" stuff and the more sophisticated ("jazzier"?) stuff. People like Robert Johnson would play both.
RIP Nick Gravenites
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