"LJS" <ljschenck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Basin Street Blues is not a blues tune. It takes more than a title.
> The changes are not even close nor is the form.
A "purist" may say not, but in fact blues was never limited to a 12 bar
form, nor to the simple I IV V changes of the simplest blues. The blues
feel is sometimes less easily defined than that. I feel it as a blues
and
I am far from alone.
Still, I won't argue, but rather observe, that in trying to think of a
blues
performance without blue notes, it is possible I was looking for pieces
with
more complex changes than the simple I IV V, because IV7 automatically
introduces a blue note, and a I IV V blues would, I would guess, be rather
dull without blue notes.
Dave
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