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Jump blues grew up from the boogie woogie wave and was stronly influenced by big band music.

Spirituals or religious chants in the African-American community are much better documented than the "low-down" blues.

4 In particular, no specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues.

333 However, there are some characteristics that were present long before the creation of the modern blues.

Later, several recordings were made by Robert W.Gordon, who became head of the Archive of American Folk Songs of the Library of Congress.

While the twelve-bar harmonic progression had been intermittently used for centuries, the revolutionary aspect of blues was the frequent use of the flattened third, flattened seventh, and even flattened fifth in the melody, together with crushing—playing directly adjacent notes at the same time (i.e., diminished second)—and sliding, similar to using grace notes.Grace notes were common in the Baroque and Classical periods, but they acted as ornamentation rather than as part of the harmonic structure.

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