Twelve bars for a Hallelujah

The blues is the secular music to tell the African-Americans their history. Largely this is a tale of woe. But there are also blues with an ironic and humorous lyrics. “You can just type new words over the 12-bar harmonic scheme and improvise,” said the singer T-Bone Walker, “and you have a new blues.” Apart from content makes the default clock and the blues chord progression as the most popular common theme at meetings of players, even if the come from different genres. Sun Wynton Marsalis tells in his book “Jazz, my life,” as he played with Itzhak Perlman at spontaneous sessions, Stevie Wonder, Paco de Lucia blues. Even with a Turkish folk musician “us with a completely unknown instrument” it worked. “The blues,” says Marsalis, “probably came into the world so that together we can make music and understand each other.”