Definition: 1. A type of slow sad music with strong rhythms, developed by African American musicians in the southern US. 2. A state of depression. 3. Feelings of sadness.
Use 'blues' in a sentence:
1. Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers with jazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expand Milhaud's and Gershwin's experiments.
2. Eurocops was beaten in the ratings on Channel 4 by Kate and Allie, Hill Street Blues and St Elsewhere.
3. No one sings the blues like she did.
4. Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
5. True blues like my grandfather won't tolerate any sort of state control.
6. In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the blues- and jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnson's own popular songs.
7. It actually had a strong influence on the development of several musical genres—rock and roll, most notably, but also jazz and blues.
8. His singing really does have the depth and the emotional range of the blues.
9. Sam Phillips, who owned Sun, wanted to revolutionise popular music with songs that fused black and white music, and country and blues.
10. Fittingly, she will spend her year off training her voice to sing blues and jazz.
11. She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.
12. Johnson is a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920s Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
13. A poet who wants to write blues can attempt to avoid this problem by poeticizing the form—but literary blues tend to read like bad poetry rather than like refined folk song.
14. The last two Premiership games havethe Blues the net nine times. Boring Chelsea indeed!
15. You can see someone on the harmonica playing blues.
16. That's the blues, too, and bad!
17. He is really not feeling well . He has got the Blues.
18. The blues was / were first performed by the black people.
19. What do you bring to the jamboree, darling, huh? Aside from those baby blues and a knife?
20. The sound veers between jazz and countrified blues.
21. According to psychologist Dr. Paul Becker , sunlight , or thereof, is the key to the winter blues.
22. She has cried the blues about its financial woes.
23. Hills, sky and forest revealed their purples, blues and green.
24. He is a protean stylist who can move from blues to ballads and grand symphony.
25. There are many styles of blues, but the distinction of importance to Hughes is between the genres referred to as "folk blues" and "classic blues".
26. He is always singing the blues about how much money his wife spends.
27. He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.
28. Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of America's great masters of the blues, a musical idiom that's essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.
29. At its core, the blues has remained the same since its inception.
30. But the blues did occasionally bother all the adults.
31. His blues poems are in fact closer stylistically to the folk blues on which he modeled them than to the cultivated classic blues.
32. For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and country music.
33. To see what Hughes' blues poetry might have been like if he had truly adopted the classic blues as his model, one need only look to "Golden Brown Blues", a song lyric Hughes wrote for composer Handy.
34. People have been playing the blues for many years.
35. It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues.
36. They've revivified rhythm and blues singing by giving it dance beats.
37. I can do country music, blues and love songs.
38. How am I ever gonna get rid of these blues?
39. Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of America's great masters of the blues, a musical idiom that's essentially about loss, particularly about the loss of love.
40. The room was decorated in vibrant blues and greens.
41. Can white girls sing the blues?
42. The room was decorated in a combination of greens and blues.
43. Her voice doesn't really lend itself well to blues singing.
44. Rock music came out of the blues.
45. For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and country music.
46. The room was decorated in vibrant blues and yellows.
47. Kim opted for cooler blues and yellows in the master bedroom.
48. Jamaican reggae music is quite distinct from North American jazz or blues.
49. Most pop music is influenced, to a greater or lesser degree, by the blues.
