Re: [Harp-L] Should the blues scale be revised?

["Emile D'Amico" <edamico@xxxxxxx>]

His stuff should be on the web site.
Yeah he could kick most of our butts twice around the 
block.
His students back then played pretty good to.
This was twenty years ago. He taught in the 
jazz studies program.Philly is a jazz town.
Most of the teachers were the real deal.
He lectured and taught jazz piano and has a
doctorate in composition.

>>> Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> 03/07/08 11:43 AM >>>
My first question would be: 'This Dr. John Valerio...could he play'?
smo-joe

On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Emile D'Amico wrote:

> Wnslow I'm with you on this one.
> When I was at the Ester Boyer College of Music
> at Temple University Dr. John Valerio did a lecture on
> the strength of the blues scale. I think what he
> tried to show was that the scale was more powerful than
> the changes.
> http://web.mac.com/jbvalerio/Site/Welcome.html
>
>
> ok got to go. Got to practice my blues scales on the
> chromatic.
>
> Emile Diggs D"Amico