[Dixielandjazz] Diminished Chords

Sat Feb 3 16:32:51 EST 2018

The song "Roll On Mississippi Roll On" recorded by the Boswell Sisters,
Noble Sissle Orchestra, and others, has two diminished chords in sequence:
"There's a spot, 'round the bend; That's my home, my journey's end."  

--Fred  

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   1. Re: Diminished chord question (Louis Lince)
   2. Re: Diminished chord question (Bert)
   3. Re: Diminished chord question (Aaron)
   4. Batchelors (Marek Boym)
   5. Diminished chords of "Squeeze Me" (Ken Gates)

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:14:00 -0000
From: "Louis Lince" <louis.lince at pobroadband.co.uk>
To: "Ken Gates" <kwg915 at gmail.com>
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Hi Ken,

The second theme of "Blame it on the Blues" is based on a diminished run

best

Louis
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  Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Diminished chord question

  Does anyone have an example of a jazz tune constructed upon a series of
diminished 7 chords?

  Did the very early jazz musicians use diminished 7 chords in their play?

  I do remember reading that Bunk Johnson and George Lewis had difference of
opinion
  about diminished chords.  Bunk for, George opposed.

  Ken Gates

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Hello Ken,

China Boy , copyrighted in 1922 has plain use of the diminished chord.
A series of diminished chords, you will find in Airmail Special, the bridge.
Of course that is not very early jazz, but it is a wellknown example.

Kind regards,

Bert

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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Diminished chord question

Does anyone have an example of a jazz tune constructed upon a series of
diminished 7 chords?

Did the very early jazz musicians use diminished 7 chords in their play?

I do remember reading that Bunk Johnson and George Lewis had difference of
opinion about diminished chords.  Bunk for, George opposed.

Ken Gates

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:15:13 -0500
From: Aaron <go4baroquemusic at aol.com>
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Can't answer the original question about very early jazz musicians, but I
love dim7 chords so I'll take a moment to talk about them. ;-)

Very common in 1920s and 30s music -- I'd say more so in tunes borrowed from
Tin Pan Alley and show/popular music than original jazz tunes.

Usage is most often chromatic movement, often toward or away from a dom7
chord. A dim7 chord is identical to the dom7 chord a half step lower, except
for the root. For instance, the upper 3 notes of a cdim7 chord are the same
as a C#7 chord.

It also accommodates chromatic movement of the melody or "blue notes" when
the melody sits on the 3rd or 5th of a chord.

An interesting side note: 4-stringed instruments (tenor/plec banjo, uke,
mando, etc.), typically play dim7 chords in place of b9 (dominant flat nine)
chords, but a 3rd up. The reason why: for most fretted strings, you usually
modify a dom7 chord to create upper extensions. Easiest way for a b9 or 9
chord is to move the root up because that's much easier in most cases
(shape-wise) than throwing away the 5th.

So for b9, you shift the root up a 1/2 step. So if you extend a C7 to a
C7b9, that changes the C7
From: C  E  G  Bb
To: Db  E  G  Bb (inverted, E  G  Bb  Db)

Or in other words, your C7 becomes an Edim7 chord. On a piano, it's inverted
-- but on a 4-string fretted instrument, you can't worry much about
inversions since you're constrained by string order.

Aaron Minnick

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?
Hi Ken,

The second theme of "Blame it on the Blues" is based on a diminished run

best

Louis

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From:   Ken Gates 

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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 4:03   PM

Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Diminished chord   question

Does anyone   have an example of a jazz tune constructed upon a series of
diminished 7   chords?

Did the very   early jazz musicians use diminished 7 chords in their play?

I do remember   reading that Bunk Johnson and George Lewis had difference of
opinion

about   diminished chords.  Bunk for, George opposed.

Ken   Gates

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:13:39 +0200
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Batchelors
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No, not a typo - a band name: The Batchelors of Jazz.  I wonder how many
listmates remember it.  At least one should, as he was the bands regular
drummer back in 1984, when I saw it at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival.
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 08:33:52 -0800
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Diminished chords of "Squeeze Me"
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Bob Ringwald told us to---------

 Listen to the 13th and 14th measure of "Squeeze Me."  It is a descending
series of diminished chords.
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Thanks to Bob Ringwald.  Looking at my copy of chords in the American Music
Caravan compact book of chords,  they show  those two measures as  ten
consecutive dim7 chords starting with Bdim7 going down to Ddim7.  Then the
two ending measures (15th and 16th) of the 16 bar chorus in the key of F are
a conventional  G7///  C7/F/.

Wow----ten consecutive dim7 chords!!!!!!

Ken Gates
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