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torsdag 04 februari 2010 07:48:03 skrev  Ken Restivo:

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> Blues definitely originates from Africa-- the pentatonic scale is still

>  used in the N'Goni and Kora there today

>From what I remember in music class is that pentatonic is all over the world.

I wouldn't say that using pentatonic defines blues. But some one with more

insight in musical theory might want to chime in here.
A funny coincident with the pentatonic scale is that yesterday I went over to

the Culture House (Kulturhuset) in Stockholm to listen to the first record [1]

with a blues song in it and it stroke me that it was very pentatonic except

for the trombone solo part with a few blue notes. It actually was more what I

today would call early Swedish jazz and not the blues scale dominated blues

that we often hear today.
[1] The Original Green Orchestra (T.O.G.O) Stompin' The Blues, 1928
/bengan

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