[Harp-L] re: butterfield, two blow, wrong tonally

[jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx]

What's the correct note?

A lead instrument usually plays the melody and embellishes it. If you stick
to a set preconceived notion of a blues scale, you limit your artistic
expression.

In Stormy Monday, T Bone Walker like the major third so much he made a chord
out of it. Of course he make a chord out the flatted third as well. And the
second. So was he playing blues?

The standard blues scale is shorthand. Sonny Terry and Mel Lyman weren't
afraid of the two blow and use a major pentatonic scale. So was it blues?
Folk? Jug band?

Leon Russel used to use cool chords like augmented 9ths. So is that jazz?
Rock? Sounds bluesy to me.

Johnny Johnson used 10ths a lot with his left hand.

I don't know if you could be a blues bassist without the major third, and
you sure wouldn't have anything to do with your left hand if you didn't play
sixths on the piano.

Blues can mean Billie Holliday and Count Basie with rich harmonies and
gorgeous melodies as much as it can mean John Lee Hooker vamping on an open
tuned chord for all it's worth.

Blues started out as a mixture of dislocated African music played on
European instruments which led to a lot of compromises. The blues wasn't
straight African--the was a mix of cultures in there. Butterfield
experimented as did Little Walter, as did Sonny Terry as did most of the old
great blues musicians. Experimentation is true traditionalism.
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