{"id":1888,"date":"2011-08-23T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2024-10-22T23:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:05:41","slug":"how-blues-influenced-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/how-blues-influenced-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"How Blues Influenced Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting an e-mail from a concerned student who bought <a href=\"http:\/\/sell.hearandplay.com\/jazz.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jazz 101<\/a> and was questioning why it focused primarily on the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;12 bar blues&#8221;<\/em><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> instead of &#8220;jazz,&#8221; I wanted to shed some light on blues&#8217; connection to jazz and how there wouldn&#8217;t be jazz as we know it without blues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tmij_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"106\" \/>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzinamerica.org\/pdf\/1\/Influence%20of%20Jazz%20on%20Blues.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">article<\/a> by the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzinamerica.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz<\/a>&#8221; puts it perfectly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;From the perspective of <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">musical structure,<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> jazz as we know it would not exist without the blues. The<br \/>\ntwelve-bar blues chorus, with its familiar <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">harmonic structure<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> and narrative form, was the single most<br \/>\npopular template for early <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jazz improvisation<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>, as compact yet profound in its way as the sonnet proved to<br \/>\nbe in the realm of poetry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you hear that?<\/p>\n<p>Blues is to jazz what the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sonnet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> proved to be to poetry.<\/p>\n<p>(Note from Wikipedia: A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line&#8230; popularized during Shakespeare&#8217;s lifetime.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzinamerica.org\/pdf\/1\/Influence%20of%20Jazz%20on%20Blues.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Go check out the article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Jazz 101, <a href=\"http:\/\/sell.hearandplay.com\/jazz.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">check out the information site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JG<\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; I recommend looking some of these songs up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">youtube<\/a> to really bring to life what the article is referencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting an e-mail from a concerned student who bought <a href=\"http:\/\/sell.hearandplay.com\/jazz.html\">Jazz 101<\/a> and was questioning why it focused primarily on the <em>&#8220;12 bar blues&#8221;<\/em> instead of &#8220;jazz,&#8221; I wanted to shed some light on blues&#8217; connection to jazz and how there wouldn&#8217;t be jazz as we know it without blues. 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