Jazz plays blues
As you may have noticed I am an avid listener to the musical art forms of Jazz and Blues, the conjoined twins that spawned every form of modern music that exists today. Although the artists that provide us with such amazing music are obviously well oiled masters of their crafts it can not be denied that both of the afore mentioned genres rely heavily on an intense dose of feeling to allow the music to really transcend across the waveforms.
For me, jazz is the epitome and as Miles Davis puts it: 'the birth of the cool'. The Blues is an expression of feeling hard done by and down and out with nowhere to turn. I imagine that either feeling would interweave between the artists of both genres. Blues singers were certainly 'cool' as any Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters fan (like Mick Jagger or Paul Mccartney or someone like that) will tell you but when jazz musicians had the blues it happened to find a way to manifest through their syncopated saxaphone lines, raspy voices and sultry trumpeted tones.
Billie Holiday - fine and mellow
Charles Mingus - pussy cat dues
Dr John - you ain't so such a much
David, TCC
For me, jazz is the epitome and as Miles Davis puts it: 'the birth of the cool'. The Blues is an expression of feeling hard done by and down and out with nowhere to turn. I imagine that either feeling would interweave between the artists of both genres. Blues singers were certainly 'cool' as any Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters fan (like Mick Jagger or Paul Mccartney or someone like that) will tell you but when jazz musicians had the blues it happened to find a way to manifest through their syncopated saxaphone lines, raspy voices and sultry trumpeted tones.
Billie Holiday - fine and mellow
Charles Mingus - pussy cat dues
Dr John - you ain't so such a much
David, TCC
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