On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:40 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
[snip]> (An interesting exception to the jazz swing convention: the
tune All
Blues, which for some odd reason is usually notated in 6/8 with
swing 16ths, rather than the more conventional 6/4 with swung 8ths
(like two bars of jazz waltz). Nutty.)
But demonstrating that people can swing in meters other than 4/4. :-)
Oh, I never said they COULDN'T, I just said you are putting up a
barrier to the easiest communication if you want swung anything-but-
eighths. I'm not that absolute. I would rather my musicians spend the
saved CPU cycles on playing musically and making contact with the
moment.
Besides which, hardly anyone actually READS All Blues except for the
first time. They know it after that. It's not that hard a tune.
Christopher
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