Jazz blues biography

A brief story of blues legend Blues B. King there is an opinion that blues are when you feel bad. Blues mood, this is when you think about bad or regrets something. You were fired from work - you get a blues. A girlfriend left you - you get a blues. Your dog will die soon - you get a blues. Perhaps not one of the forms of music does not express such strong spiritual experiences, from rampant joy to deep sadness.

Blues have deep roots in American history, in particular in the history of Afro-Americans. Blues arose on southern plantations in the 19th century. Its inventors were slaves who sang when they worked on cotton fields. It is generally accepted that the music of the blues appeared as a genre based on African spirituals, work songs, drum music and country dance music. Blues' birthday is considered to be the Mississippi Delta and the territory up the river from the New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless versions. Blues have spread significantly from south to the Midwest in the X and XX century. After the Delta blues made its way into urban areas, it turned into an electrified chicago blues, and other blues and various jazz blues hybrids appeared. Ten years later, or a little later, on the basis of the blues, the rhythm end-blouse and rock and roll was born.

In the second half of the 19th century, the southern states were the birthplace for hundreds of bluesmen, thanks to which the blues developed as a genre. Unfortunately, most of this original music followed the other world, following the performers.

But the legacy of these early blues pioneers can still be heard on the old records of the X and X years. These are notes from the southern states. Such as Louisiana, Texas, George, Mississippi and others, this music has not gone very far from songs from plantations and working songs of slaves. Many of the early blues musicians included blues in a wider repertoire, which consisted of traditional folk songs, music of vaudeville and minstrel-melodium.

Without going too deep in the technical direction, we can say that the most common blues consisting of 12 measures. Also in the blues a specific series of rules is used. Gamma on which the melody is built is distinguished by special - blues notes. Sometimes they united with one or more comrades and thus created the first ensembles. Early blues performers used guitars, mandolins, bandjo, casket, string bass, luminous accordions, violin, washing boards and other household items transformed into musical instruments.

When Country Blue moved to the cities and other places, he took over various regional features. Therefore, now there is St. Louis Blues, Memphis Blues, Blues Louisiana, etc. Chicago Bluesmen, such as John Lee Hoker and Maddy Waters, were discoverers of electrified blues and added drums and piano at the end of x. Today there are many different styles of blues. West Coast Blues is under the strong influence of the Swing Texas Blues, Memphis Blues and St.

Louis Blues consist of a wide spectrum of Louisian's squeezers is characterized by a game on a slide-a guitar or a lonely sound with a lingering sound, while Kansas City is a Baise Basei jazz, there is also a British bluer, there is also a British bluer, Rock Blue with pioneers of which can be called John Mayall, Peter Green and Eric Clapton, New Orleans Blues, based on piano, with the exception of the work of such talented guitarists as the Guitar Slim and Snoooks Eaglin.

You can also call so many modern musicians who play in the style of Blues Rock.