rct Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Some say that jazz owes its heritage to the blues. The blues offered the framework for the more sophisticated improvisation and harmonization/chord substitution found in jazz. Bessie Smith, one of the original blues singers to be recorded, employed Louis Armstrong, and jazzmen from Jelly Roll Morton to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock played their own versions of the blues. Blues rock was just the natural evolution of that significant, grass roots art form. Can't remember who it was that said that jazz was just blues that swings. "Jazz is just two wrong notes in a row on purpose." - me. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 ...and played in the wrong order at that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Well the rock thing and the evolution of blues was happening in America but no one was interested at that time.. That's why Jimi Hendrix had to come to the UK to get noticed where it was all happening. If I'm Hendrix playing my music to Monkey's fans, the UK option is sounding pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Call me crazier, I prefer the British Imitation. I for one am inclined to agree, but I think equipment has to be part of the conversation. English blues guitarists were certainly inspired by American blues music and certainly pushed the genre forward with new stylistic flair - but most importantly they did it with Marshalls! Chicago blues was a bit plinky plinky sounding. Run those same licks through a wound up Marshall amp and they take on a new life. All my humble opinion of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 If I'm Hendrix playing my music to Monkey's fans, the UK is sounding pretty good. Lol.. Instead of no one was interested I should have said the record companies.. cos that's what I meant... As I said I know it was all happening at about the same time.. Around 1965.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I'm with you Rabs. And surf, rct, Jimi, and Brundaddy... I'm with all y'all. And as much as I love Cream's version of Spoonful, I could listen to Howlin' Wolf's version all night long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Vaughan worship killed the whole thing for me. Blues got boring, every bar had at least one guy with a suspiciously worn strat, super, and cardboard sounding TS8. 9. Whatever. And he would only do Voodoo Chilly, exactly like the record. Sucked. SRV was great and all but Christ, I grew up in a nj town full of kids that could rip Texas Blooz all day. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 If I'm Hendrix playing my music to Monkey's fans, the UK option is sounding pretty good. Agreed, except he toured with the Monkees (July '67) following that first album he recorded in the UK. I think he left here mid "66. Most likely the chitlin circuit in the south drove him to the UK. I would've liked to have been there to see him fire up the Marshalls as the Monkees opener. I bet some teeny boppers crapped their pants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I would've liked to have been there to see him fire up the Marshalls as the Monkees opener. I bet some teeny boppers crapped their pants! Yes, just before they booed him off stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 1421632421[/url]' post='1616924']"Jazz is just two wrong notes in a row on purpose." - me. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHenry Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Jimi Hendrix wasn't the only U.S musician to head for the U.K, if you read Scott Gorham's story he arrived from California expecting to see a rock star on every street corner, he didn't of course. Conversely there were quite a few musicians from the U.K who couldn't make any headway at home found stardom in the U.S but are still unknown in the U.K. John Sykes is a good example, my friend and I bumped into him in Woolworths in Blackpool, my friend recognised him (I wouldn't have) and when we spoke to him he was absolutely gob smacked that anyone should know him. He seemed like quite a pleasant chap. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I think that technology in communications and economics really led to a lotta changes after WWII. By the mid '60s it was a different world compared to before the war in terms of music crossing the pond after the war. And it's a world of difference to fly across the Atlantic compared to a passenger liner. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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