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The Blue Note
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The expression “Blue Note” was first mentioned by the female writer George Sand, herself a good pianist, when describing Frédéric Chopin . He was often, when playing for friends, fooling around with notes on the keyboard up to the moment where he felt he had found the right mood and chord for the following piece of music. It was often emotional if not nostalgic. George called it la note blue, or “the blue note.”
It was 1841....
On the other side of the Atlantic, African-Americans were mixing religious gospel chants and work songs coming from the horrible years of slavery to create a new form of music. This new form of music often told the sadness and hopes of the singer.
We’re in 1875.
It would soon take the name of blues as in "blue devils" and is derived from the French word blue, bleu. In order to marry the harmonies of African-born vocals and European based musical instruments like the piano or the guitar, new harmonies and scales were invented. These new intervals were called “the blue notes”...
Blues and ragtime were the main music styles played in the famous brothel zone in New Orleans known as Storyville, and a new form of music came out of that: Jazz. The name comes from Jass, meaning liveliness, excitement, and spirit.
We’re now in 1917…)
Some twenty years later, three Jewish men in Brooklyn created a label they would dedicate to jazz. These releases were paramount as establishing jazz as a vital form of music. We’re in 1939...That label was called "Blue Note"…
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She's My Candy Cane
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Andante Ma Non Troppo
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It made no difference how we, we mistook those summer days
Strumming still strumming away
We took the stage allowed no matter what we played it turned off their absent gaze
Wandered away without
A darkened soul needed some light
Marched off right into the night
Gave in tired of the long fight
Nothing left to lose, it felt so right
One note too far he crossed that road bold and ready as the devil stood
One note too far And there for all his dreams the devil took everything that he knew he could
One note too far
For the music to be good
An empty soul was yearning to be filled, All of the troubles gone
Crowds feeling that he belonged
The devil played along and carried every song and yes they captured every gaze
Walking away with new praise
The deal took hold his songs were gold
Every dark stage night was sold
And no one knew if the legend there was true
From one guitar they swore that they heard two
One note too far the devil took his due
And no one really knew if the legend there was true
Strumming still strumming away
The music walks again
Songs of souls will never end
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Be My Girl
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I Put A Spell On You
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La Dolce Vita
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Ding Dong
04:00
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