1. The Legacy of American Jazz
The caller, or soloist's part is a complex variation on the set response of the group of other singers that respond. ... Also, divided into three sets of four bars, 12-bar-blues uses a variation of call and response in which the first two lines vocally are identical, and the third is a response or comment on the first two. ... Handy was responsible for bringing blues into the mainstream, blues was also being combined with another African influenced genre, ragtime, to create early jazz style in New Orleans. ... They were the first to use the piano as a rhythm instrument, and to combin...
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