>
> This is essentially true, as I mentioned in different words in my
earlier
> post. The "blues scale" is a modern construct. (I'd be interested to
> know how modern. It's possible it was never mentioned before the
1980s,
> but if there is earlier do***entation, I'd definitely be interested in
it.)
Isn't it in Coker's writings long before this? It is also in textbooks
that I have used that were purchased in the 80's (I believe Silva
Burdette and other of that genre) and these books are certainly not
the leading edge of putting new information into books designed for
young school children. And then from personal experience, I know that
we used the term as well as the notes in college in the 60s. I don't
think that we were the only school that were so modern. I also seem to
remember reading, in my research of older blues posts in this group,
that someone though that it was from the Parker/Gillespie era in the
50's (maybe you remember who said something like that?) although I
have heard it in transcriptions of music long before that. The New
Orleans and Southern Louisiana and Mississippi musicians certainly use
it long before that. If everyone was using it, I would think that this
would constitute a construct or at least an abstract or general idea
inferred or derived from specific instances.
In any case, I suggest that you start with Coker and work backwards if
you want to find out who first wrote about these sets of notes. In
general, however, I have found that if you go to the source, the
actual musicians, and you actually analyze and play the music that you
get a much better perspective of what it is about rather than to rely
on researchers to write about their interpretations of something of
this nature. After all, isn't that one of the nice things about jazz
recordings. It gives us a real idea of the ***ulation of the knowledge
of the musicians involved and it sets a point in time that can be
referenced for historians to analyze and then speculate about. (In
general I find that a lot of researchers have the same philosophy as
one of our right wing talk radio hosts that claims "I read the news
and tell you what you have to know so that you don't have to." and if
you ever heard his views, you would see that it does not always
reflect a clear and accurate picture of what is really happening!)
> It does provide a simple way of sounding "bluesy", but yes "actual blues
> music" does not restrict itself to this palette of 6 notes.
("Blues"
> itself, as a vocal folk art form, is generally believed to go back
possibly
> as far as around the 1860s but its origins are somewhat shrouded in
> mystery.)
Neither does "sounding bluesy". If there were not variations, life
would be extremely static.
"Shrouded in Mystery" What an interesting way of looking at this!
LJS
>
> Dave
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> David Webber
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