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Pharoah Sanders - Dr. Pitt

From obscure origins, the genre had developed by 1900 to its typical three line stanza, with a vocal style derived from the field holler or shout of southern work songs. By the 1920s the first blues recordings were made, of the Mississippi delta country tradition, and other southern regional variants, and the classic vaudeville based blues... The migration north to Chicago during the 1920s led eventually to a new urban blues tradition, coarser and fiercer than earlier styles. This led in the 1940s to the style known as rhythm and blues. All instruments were by this time amplified. The principal exponents were Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf. Blues influenced rock and roll and other genres, including skiffle and soul music. It has continued as an independent genre.

Blues as a musical term can describe an oral tradition of African American poetry set to music using blues form, typically three line stanzas with the first two lines being similar, set to a twelve bar harmonic framework called a blues progression, the form of the poetry and/or the music, and an aesthetic that remains an ideal for Jazz performance in general. Blues originated as an expression of the individual and interactive social tradition of a displaced African American population. It began with the African American agrarian working class of the Mississippi Delta and combined African American and European American traditions, particularly hollers... and British ballads. It was established by the late 1800s as primarily a vocal and improvisatory genre, often with instrumental accompaniment.

Pharoah Sanders - Dr. Pitt
  • Released on: Journey to the One album
  • Release in: 1980
  • Written by: Pharoah Sanders

"Pharoah Sanders developed a slightly different style and was strongly influenced by John Coltrane.  He would also go on to produce much free jazz, being influenced by his free jazz collaborations with Coltrane."

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