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New Orleans Jazz and the Blues

2011; Routledge; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/17494060.2011.590676

1749-4079

Vic Hobson,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

Based on questions raised by Paul Oliver, this article argues that the blues was integral to the development of jazz rather than an external influence. The blues scale of Winthrop Sargeant and Gerhard Kubik and their relation to blues tonality are considered in relation to “Careless Love” and “Pallet on the Floor.” “I'm Alabama Bound” is also considered. This was a repertoire common to rural songsters and the emerging jazz bands of New Orleans. The 12-bar blues of piano players and the relationship between the blues of Mamie Desdunes and the “2:19 Blues” is explored, as is the role of New Orleans songsters. This essay draws on the oral history files of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Library of Congress, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. In particular the Papers of Frederic Ramsey Jr. and the interview conducted by Charles Edward Smith with Willie Cornish for Jazzmen (1939) confirm that Buddy Bolden played the 12-bar blues in the early years of the twentieth century. From this it is safe to conclude that the blues in all its forms was present in New Orleans around the turn of the century and was integral to the emergence of jazz. Search lists A list: Paul Oliver, Winthrop Sargeant, Gerhard Kubik, “Careless Love,” “Pallet on the Floor,” “Alabama Bound,” “Mamie's Blues” “2:19 Blues,” “I'm Alabama Bound,” Frederic Ramsey Jr., Charles Edward Smith, Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Albert Glenny, Willie “Bunk” Johnson, Perry Bradford, W. C. Handy. B list: Henry “Ragtime Texas” Thomas, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Galloway, Henry Peyton, Tony Jackson, Richard M. Jones, Richard “Rabbit” Brown, Nooky Johnson, New Orleans Willie Jackson, Lemon Nash, Lonnie Johnson, Punch Miller (Earnest Burden), Kid Ory, John Joseph, Manuel Manetta, Jim Robinson, Charles “Sunny” Henry, Willie and George “Pops” Foster, Eddie Dawson, Johnny St. Cyr, Ed Montudi, John Wiggs, George Lewis, Clarence “Little Dad” Vincent, Eddie Morris, Hypolite Charles, Joseph “Fan” Bourgeau, R. Emmet Kennedy.