Week 8

Blues

Reflection Question : Explain how the roles of blues in the development of early jazz

Blues sounds a little bit like jazz, That's why I think that early jazz must have been developed from blues. In the 12 bars blues we're supposed to improvise and make our own melodies from the given chords. Since I learned that improvisations is a very crucial element in jazz I figured that maybe Jazz was the one that was influenced by Blues. Another thing that I find is that Jazz songs and Blues songs are never played the same way twice, due to different improvisations and improvisations techniques used by different musicians.