  If i told you blue notes are found african traditional music would you blieve me. or that chinese music have blue notes. just because we use an english name(s) here it does not mean other people don't have their own names for blue notes or non at all.   I do not think when black were forging their music in the initial stages they rellied(SP?) on white musical theories. Black were denied any form of education as this was deemed a threat to whitey. As I told you the improvisation, the chromatic scale, the atonality, the melody (when present), the counterpoint are not white inventions. Believe it not those scales and technic are found in African music. Just because whitey gave them a name it does not mean other people do not have them with or without names. Ask Paul Simon he seems to have spent some time studying African music. :D  What does that Jew Paul Simon know about anything??:rolleyes: Chinese music has blues notes? well that's settled that means Blues is not African it must be Chinese!:p winka chinka ching ching chong , me have blues , me love you long time, winka chinka ching ching chong......