[Dixielandjazz] Bridge for Strange Blues

[Ron L'Herault]

If you are a longtime listener to New Englander, Ray Smith's show, "The
Jazz Decades', you will have heard Strange Blues.  He uses it as a
theme.

Ron L

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Stangeland
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bridge for Strange Blues

Ken,

The Charles Anderson Collection of Tunes includes Wingy Malone's
"Strange
Blues", in Eb.

The first four quarter notes in the bridge appear to be:  B, A, Gb and
Eb,
played with a B7 chord.
That doesn't sound right to me so I use                        B, Ab,
Gb,
and Eb with a B7 chord.

Maybe Wingy meant to use the A-natural to make his blues "strange".

Cheers,
Bruce Stangeland
Berkeley banjoist
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:38:01 -0800
From: "Ken Gates" <kwg28 at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bridge on "Strange Blues"
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Wingy Manone is given credit for "Strange Blues"---a rather pretty tune,
I
think.
I have two recorded versions----One is in the key of Db ---- This one
use
the chord A7
--and the four melody notes of A7 to start the bridge.

The other version is in the key of C --- and Ab7 (the corresponding
chord,
of course) does
NOT seem to work--but Ab6 (one melody note different) does seem to work.

Either way sounds okay to my ear.  But curious as to what chord and what
the
first four
eighth notes of the bridge are used by your group.  Anybody play this
tune?

Ken Gates

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