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  1. Jun 2023
    1. The very best players compress enormous inventiveness into that four-bar mbaqangathing. It can also be an eight-bar sequence in which the melody sits only over the third beatof the first bar to the first beat of the second bar. That same bit of melody might happenin a 16-bar sequence, you see.

      You’d get people working all the options with fascinating results. There were people, like those in the band led by “Cups and Saucers,”3 working with a really great sensitivity to this kind of structuring, and very cleverly, too.

    2. The Walking Bass
    3. Swing Rhythms: Shuffles and Ten-to-Ten
    4. In looking at time in jazz

      Time in Jazz