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Jazz blues is a music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al style that combines jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
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The term also refers to any tune that follows the standard 12-bar blues chord progression, whilst being played in the jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 style, rather than the traditional blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 style. Blues music was a major influence in the development of jazz, and such tunes are extremely common in the jazz repertoire. (In addition to the chord progression, jazz players borrowed many other stylistic devices from the blues, such as blue note
Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
s, blues-like phrasing
Phrasing

In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. In common practice phrases are often four and most often eight bars, or measures, long....
 of melodies, and blues riff
RIFF

The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic meta-format for storing data in tagged chunks.It was introduced in 1991 by Microsoft and International Business Machines, and was presented by Microsoft as the default format for Windows 3.1x multimedia files....
s.) A jazz blues will usually feature a more sophisticated -- or at any rate a different -- treatment of the harmony
Harmony

In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously, and chord s, actual or implied, in music. The word is related to the word "harmonic" which implies related wavelengths of waves....
 than a traditional, "blues" blues would, but the underlying features of the standard 12-bar jazz progression remain discernible.






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Jazz blues is a music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al style that combines jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
.

The term also refers to any tune that follows the standard 12-bar blues chord progression, whilst being played in the jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 style, rather than the traditional blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 style. Blues music was a major influence in the development of jazz, and such tunes are extremely common in the jazz repertoire. (In addition to the chord progression, jazz players borrowed many other stylistic devices from the blues, such as blue note
Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
s, blues-like phrasing
Phrasing

In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. In common practice phrases are often four and most often eight bars, or measures, long....
 of melodies, and blues riff
RIFF

The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic meta-format for storing data in tagged chunks.It was introduced in 1991 by Microsoft and International Business Machines, and was presented by Microsoft as the default format for Windows 3.1x multimedia files....
s.) A jazz blues will usually feature a more sophisticated -- or at any rate a different -- treatment of the harmony
Harmony

In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously, and chord s, actual or implied, in music. The word is related to the word "harmonic" which implies related wavelengths of waves....
 than a traditional, "blues" blues would, but the underlying features of the standard 12-bar jazz progression remain discernible. One of the main ways the jazz musician accomplishes this is through the use of chord substitution
Chord substitution

A chord substitution is the use of a chord in the place of another related chord in a chord progression. Jazz musicians often substitute chords in the original progression to create variety and add interest to a piece....
s: a chord in the original progression is replaced by one or more chords which have the same general "sense" or function. An important example of this occurs in the 9th and 10th bars, where the usual blues progression is almost always replaced by the typical jazz cycle-of-fifths progression. One well-known artist that sang this form of jazz was Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
. Jazz blues music is also usually a more difficult piece to write if you try to write it in music form. ; ii minor  -->  V.   The 12-bar blues form, in B flat, often becomes B7 / E7 / B7 / B7 E7 / Edim7 / B7 / Dm7-G7 Cm7 / F7 / Dm7-G7 / Cm7-F7 or in C C7 / F7 / C7-D7 / C7 F7 / G7 / C7 / Em7-Am7 / Dm7 / G7 / C7 / G7 Where each slash represents a new measure, in the jazz-blues. The significant changes include the Edim7, which creates movement, and the III-VI-II-V or I-VI-II-V turnaround, a jazz staple. The Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on U.S. television network American Broadcasting Company....
 song Where the Money Goes is a good example of this genre.