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Bengt Gördén bengan at bag.org
Thu Feb 4 04:58:03 EST 2010


torsdag 04 februari 2010 07:48:03 skrev  Ken Restivo:
> Blues definitely originates from Africa-- the pentatonic scale is still
>  used in the N'Goni and Kora there today

From what I remember in music class is that pentatonic is all over the world. 
I wouldn't say that using pentatonic defines blues. But some one with more 
insight in musical theory might want to chime in here.

A funny coincident with the pentatonic scale is that yesterday I went over to 
the Culture House (Kulturhuset) in Stockholm to listen to the first record [1] 
with a blues song in it and it stroke me that it was very pentatonic except 
for the trombone solo part with a few blue notes. It actually was more what I 
today would call early Swedish jazz and not the blues scale dominated blues 
that we often hear today.

[1] The Original Green Orchestra (T.O.G.O) Stompin' The Blues, 1928


/bengan


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