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Rowe Presents at "The Other Side"
By Monk Rowe
April 23, 2015
Monk Rowe
On April 15, Monk Rowe, Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, presented an interactive lecture/demonstration at the The Other Side in Utica entitled "The Blues in 12 Bars Will Free Your Spirit." This was the last presentation in the 2014-15 Imagining America Series organized by Professor Carl Rubino. With guitarist John Hutson, they explored the 12 measure blues form, the AAB lyrics scheme and how the blues has been an integral part of American popular music since the early 1900s. Audience members composed a new song using the blues form, appropriately entitled "The Taxman Blues".
