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Blues is the name assigned to both a musical form and a music brand that originated in African-American communities of essentially the "Deep South" of the US at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is identified by express chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue observes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or steadily bent ( minor Third to major 3rd ) re the pitch of the major scale, are also a vital part of the sound. The blues class is based on the blues form but has other characteristics such as explicit lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres starting from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the Twentieth century. Well known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. WW2 marked the transition from acoustic to electrical blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a larger audience, particularly white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved. The term "the blues" refers back to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and unhappiness ; an early use of the term in this sense is present in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils ( 1798 ). Though the employment of the phrase in African-American music could be older, it's been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. In words the phrase is sometimes used to describe a depressed mood. The lyrics of early normal blues verses probably regularly consisted mainly of a single line repeated 4 times ; it was only in the first decades of the 20 th century that the most common current structure became standard : the supposed AAB pattern, consisting of a line sung over the 4 first bars, its repetition over the following 4, and then a longer concluding line during the past bars. Two of the first published blues songs, "Dallas Blues" ( 1912 ) and "St. Louis Blues" ( 1914 ), were 12-bar blues featuring the AAB structure. W. C. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to bypass the monotony of lines repeated 3 times.[19] The lines are frequently sung following a pattern nearer to a rhythmic talk than to a tune. Early blues frequently came in the form of a loose narrative. The singer declared their "personal troubles in an entire world of oppressive reality : a lost love, the cruelty of law enforcement officials, oppression by the hands of white folk, [and] hard times." This melancholy has led straight to the proposal of an Igbo origin for blues thanks to the reputation the Igbo had through plantations in the Americas for their melancholic music and outlook to life when they were enslaved. Though Kansas City, Missouri is understood essentially for jazz, it in addition has made a contribution to the history of and the preservation of the blues. Kansas City did not enter into blues history until the 1940s. Kansas City blues artists Pete Johnson and Large Joe Turner recorded a sort of music called jump blues, which later provided the bedrock for rhythm and blues, and later rock 'n roll. Charlie Parker experimented in the blues in the latter 1940s with his release of the hit "Now's the Time", a bebop jazz number that gave a nod to the approval for the blues in Kansas City, by using the familiar blues pentatonic scale and blue notes. The blues scene in Kansas City produced Jay McShann, Sonny Kenner, Small Hatch and Cotton Candy and the blues was popular in small dives and after-hours jam sessions. Many Kansas City musicians would finish their "paying" gigs at weddings, jazz clubs and so on. And then pack up and head to the Eighteenth and Vine-Downtown East, Kansas City district to participate in night-long parties that would sometimes continue well into daylight. The Eighteenth & Vine jam sessions continue today at Kansas City's Musician's Foundation. The Musician's Foundation has protection from liquor laws, and has not modified its look since the 1940s. Important Kansas City blues artists. [http://kansascitypartybands.com/ Kansas City Bands] For Complete Kansas City Band Information contact: Omni Entertainment 1615 Northeast 100th Court, Kansas City, MO 64155-1968 (816) 734-4558

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