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Jazz Blues
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Jazz blues is not a discrete historical movement with its own founding scene so much as a recurring hybrid form running throughout jazz history: compositions and improvisations built on the standard twelve-bar blues progression but reharmonized with jazz's extended chords and played with swung, walking-bass rhythm rather than the more straightforward feel of blues bands. It appears across eras, from early New Orleans jazz through bebop blues heads to soul jazz, making it difficult to point to a single decade, place, or handful of pioneering originators. Charlie Parker's blues compositions and Horace Silver's blues-drenched hard bop are often cited as influential examples of the form within jazz.
Alberto Marsico Alessio Menconi Allan Harris B.B. King ✦ 1925–2015 Big Maybelle ✦ 1924–1972 Bruno Marini Chie Ayado Cornell Dupree ✦ 1942–2011 David Sanborn ✦ 1945–2024 Dida Pelled Gene Ammons ✦ 1925–1974 George Adams ✦ 1940–1992 Gigi Cifarelli Gur Liraz Hank Crawford ✦ 1934–2009 James Blood Ulmer ✦ 1940–2026 Jay Collins John Scofield Junior Mance ✦ 1928–2021 Louis Cato Mecco Guidi Oz Noy Paul Butterfield ✦ 1942–1987 Pierre Durand Ray Charles ✦ 1930–2004 Rick Rosato Royal Blue ✦ –Date unknown, New York City Sunao Wada ✦ 1934–2021 Yuval Amihai
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