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The 83 pages that link to Blues, each with the reason it gives.

• Fats WallerRelated: Blues phrasing and feeling were among the resources Waller drew on as a jazz performer.

• Ornette ColemanRelated: Blues phrasing remained a strong melodic resource even as Coleman loosened jazz harmony.

• Rock bandRelated: Blues phrasing, harmony, and guitar styles shaped early rock performance.

• Sidney BechetRelated: Blues phrasing and expressive bent notes are central to Bechet’s melodic language.

• Etta JamesNarrower topic: Blues gave her performances a vocabulary for pain, desire, and resilience.

• GreenCompared with: Blue lies on the other side of green in common hue ordering.

• Ma RaineyNarrower topic: Rainey helped establish the blues as a recorded and toured genre.

• Tom WaitsNarrower topic: Blues traditions supply recurring structures and vocal gestures across many of his songs.

• Buddy BoldenRelated: Blues inflections helped distinguish the sound associated with Bolden’s band.

• Charles MingusRelated: Its melodic language and emotional directness recur throughout Mingus’s compositions.

• Charley PattonNarrower topic: Patton’s work helped establish conventions that shaped the broader blues tradition.

• CyanCompared with: Cyan lies between blue and green rather than at the blue end of that range.

• Horace SilverRelated: Blues phrasing gives many Silver compositions their direct, grounded character.

• Hugh LaurieRelated: Laurie’s recordings and performances draw heavily on blues repertoire and style.

• Music of the United StatesBroader topic: Blues shaped jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues.

• Sister Rosetta TharpeRelated: Blues phrasing gave Tharpe’s gospel guitar playing much of its expressive vocabulary.

• SorrowRelated: Blues lyrics and performance often turn sorrow into expression and resilience.

• The Blue BoyRelated: The dominant blue clothing gives the painting its familiar title and visual emphasis.

• Willie DixonNarrower topic: Dixon drew on blues traditions while reshaping them for Chicago bands.

• Bonnie RaittNarrower topic: Blues phrasing and repertoire form the foundation of Raitt’s musical style.

• IndigoNarrower topic: Indigo is commonly treated as a deep or violet-leaning blue.

• MississippiRelated: Mississippi Delta communities helped shape the blues through work songs, local performance, and migration.

• Black (color)Compared with: Blue is chromatic, whereas black is achromatic and has little perceived hue.

• Dinah WashingtonNarrower topic: Washington’s blues recordings established a major strand of her career before her pop crossover.

• Louis JordanNarrower topic: Jordan’s phrasing and storytelling drew on blues while redirecting it toward dance-band audiences.

• SinnersNarrower topic: Blues performance is woven into the film's setting, characters, and ideas about cultural inheritance.

• Marion HarrisRelated: Harris adapted blues repertoire and vocal inflections for popular audiences.

• Navy blueNarrower topic: Navy blue is a dark shade within the broader blue color category.

• Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsRelated: Blues structures and vocal idioms recur throughout the band’s music.

• OdettaRelated: Her repertoire and vocal phrasing drew deeply on blues traditions.

• Sentimental balladRelated: Blues brought distinctive vocal expression and themes of romantic trouble into popular song.

• TinariwenCompared with: Tinariwen draws on blues sonorities while retaining Tuareg languages and musical identities.

• Zucchero FornaciariNarrower topic: Its vocal phrasing and forms are central to Zucchero’s musical identity.