[Dixielandjazz] Joe Avery Blues & Rock Around The Clock

[Steve barbone]

My two cents is with Sheik's take. The tunes are different . .  that is . .
as different as blues tunes can be, given the similar chord structures.

IMO, Blues is Blues. They're just about all similar unless you venture into
the more current sets of Blues chord changes like Coltrane's Blues For Alice
etc., which sounds suspiciously like Bird Blues etc. Or Bird's "Now's The
Time" which sounds like his "Billie's Bounce" which sounds like somebody
else's "Hucklebuck" etc.

And Avery in the stop section, sounds like quite a few Boogie Woogie tunes.

Avery and RATC sound similar, sure, but then so do they sound similar to
about 1000 other blues songs, either early, or R&R, that use the identical
chord patterns for the first few bars. Compare them both do all of the "Jump
Blues" that Louis Jordan put out. All similar, yet not quite identical.

Cheers,
Steve