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Re: Jazz Basics

Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-06-23 19:05

"The notation for basic jazz and blues melodies is the outline."

I would clarify this statement: notation of jazz and blues is not "the" outline, but only "an" outline. Take, for example, Sidney Bechet's "Blue Horizon." Bechet neither read not wrote music. The manuscript, therefore, is his recording, not any notated sheet music. Any written version would be an interpretation.

That's the way it is with nearly all jazz and blues in its primary form. As we go farther into written arrangements, we're really talking about the appropriation of jazz ideas into the written (usually commercial) sphere.

Eric

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Post Edited (2016-06-23 19:14)

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