The Chinese scale is our first major scale and is in fact an inversion ... descending lick that borrows ideas from familiar blues-rock phrasing but with a harmonic twist due to the scale’s ...

the fictional religious artifact from 1989 sports comedy "Major League." Jobu arrived spontaneously Feb. 22; he now has his own locker and nameplate, and the Blues have begun using him in merchandise.

Blues scale Improvisatory solos can be built around ... eg a trumpet could play an ascending staccato major arpeggio and then a trombone could answer with a slurred descending minor arpeggio.

His soloing was more in keeping with blues language, and he primarily used the minor pentatonic and blues scale, often adding ...