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 The
term "blue.“
 Performance or interaction with the
music can be seen as a means of
ridding oneself of "the blues."
 Many jazz players of all schools have
held that a musician’s ability to play
the blues expressively is a measure of
his or her quality.
 "rough"
or "unrefined" timbres
 "blue" notes such as the b3 or b5, or
deviations from "standard" pitch
 improvisation, including variations of
the melody and solos
Strophic – repetition of one or more
sections of a piece, such as in a song
with multiple verses or choruses
 Typical form of a blues chorus

› 2 identical lines of text followed by a single
contrasting line
› melody follows the lyric form
› form described as AAB

fixed harmonic progression

Work songs
› call & response
› group participation

“Field hollers”
› ‘long, loud, musical shout, rising and falling
and breaking into falsetto’
› solo
› improvised
› inflections similar to blues