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    I've just discovered the Delmore Brothers. Their recordings are a treasure trove of great old time/blues songs.

    I would like to learn a little jazzier version of Blues SAFM than just majors with dominant 7th's. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Happy New Year

    Jon

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    Perhaps this would help:
    Blues 501: Advanced Patterns
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    That's a nice catalog of alternate blues changes,
    althogh I
    question an em7 right after the F (flatted fifth works, though). The only variation missing is Doanld Byrd's
    Blue Changes which were also the harmonic base for
    T Thileman's Bluesette.

    However, sometimes complexity destroys feeling.
    This particular tune (in the version I know of)
    derives its haunting quality
    from its simplicity - the rockabilly figure in the
    guitar, Wade Raney's harmonica. If you want
    to be hip, start hip from the bottom up.
    don't add hipness to
    earthiness.

    One reason I dropped Flinner-Grier-Phillips' latest
    efforts in the wastebasket was the way they
    dressed up some Monroe originals, with cute
    descending bass-lines, and what else. Pointless.
    They should have incorporated these ideas in some originals, instead.

    I'm reminded of Miles Davis' comment to one of the pieces
    on Sketches of Spain: If I try to bop this piece I will
    wind up sounding like a hip cornball.

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    My favorite Miles quote is what he said to Thelonious Monk after Monk played some typically strange backing chords during Miles' solo, "Just drop out when I solo next time...don't play at all."
    Mike Plunkett

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