Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica within a larger Musical Framework was RE:Summertime

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but it is a  blues, in form at least, surely? Plenty of 'bop', 'modern' and 'progressive' jazz can still be blues. I was listening to 'Coltrane plays the blues' just a couple of days ago. It ain't 'blues' like Sonny Boy at al, but it's still in blues form (12, 8, 16 bars with the main gravitational points (ie I IV & V) still perceptible.
RD
>>> Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> 21/10/2008 15:32 >>>

On Oct 20, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:

> You could have played him 'Straight no chaser', Joe; that's blues  
> isn't it? Or is it 'A blues', but not 'blues'?
> RD

Actually, that's how we wound up doing 'We'll go Round in Circles' (a  
Billy Preston tune). All the background was done on diatonic but the  
solo was on the high end of the chromo. S no C is not blues. It's  
bop. In between progressive jazz and modern jazz.