Re: [Harp-L] Why do you want to play blues? In defense of the blues.



I know I'm in a different country, but in the UK I would say the blues receives enormous respect compared to, for instance, jazz which is often packaged displeasingly as 'smooth jazz' with most of the risks planed right off.
On 21 Aug 2008, at 19:52, lil Buddha wrote:


I do agree with you Bill. I think blues often receives the same disrespect
the harmonica receives. Just because something can be easy and simple does
not mean it needs to be confined to that. Nor does something being complex
or difficult make it inherently better.



On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Bill Kumpe <bkumpe@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Jonathan Mets said: "It's easy, and I'm not good enough yet to play jazz
or
classical." I'm not a good enough player or sufficiently educated to speak
with authority on this subject and Jonathan, I mean no disrespect to you,
but your answer bothers me. Maybe some of the more accomplished folks on
the list can speak more to this subject. However, I don't see it as fair
to
compare blues with classical and jazz in that way. It is my understanding
that jazz grew out of the blues and good players go back and forth over
whatever imaginary line divides them without worrying about it too much. I
know when I hear it happening and I love it. As a matter of fact, I've
started playing around with standards and throwing in a blues lick whenever
I think it will sound good. But the very simplicity of the blues format
leaves much more room for personal expression and interpretation. I don't
see the blues as musical step-child to be abandoned when you master your
insrument but rather as a distinct art form with its own peculiar,
expressive, challenging characteristics. Am I wrong here?




Bill Kumpe

Attorney at Law

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Tulsa, OK 74103

918-381-9792



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