On 02/04/2010 10:58 AM, Bengt Gördén wrote: > torsdag 04 februari 2010 07:48:03 skrev Ken Restivo: >> Blues definitely originates from Africa-- the pentatonic scale is still >> used in the N'Goni and Kora there today > > From what I remember in music class is that pentatonic is all over the world. > I wouldn't say that using pentatonic defines blues. But some one with more > insight in musical theory might want to chime in here. > > A funny coincident with the pentatonic scale is that yesterday I went over to > the Culture House (Kulturhuset) in Stockholm to listen to the first record [1] > with a blues song in it and it stroke me that it was very pentatonic except > for the trombone solo part with a few blue notes. It actually was more what I > today would call early Swedish jazz and not the blues scale dominated blues > that we often hear today. > > [1] The Original Green Orchestra (T.O.G.O) Stompin' The Blues, 1928 > > > /bengan > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/muslim.roots.u.s.blues.htm Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
