[Dixielandjazz] Two beat or four beat...............

[Bill Gunter]

Hello listmates,

Brian Harvey writes:

>My grateful thanks to all the members who answered my question so
>succinctly. I doubt however if anyone could come up with a definition of
>what the late Ken Colyer referred to as those "f***ing inner rhythms" 
>within
>New Orleans jazz - or can they?

I suppose there wouldn't be a single definition (other than "those f***ing 
rhythms") because there are lots of different rhythms that can pop up.

Take Jellyroll's "Georgia Swing" . . . even the intro is a tricky rhythmic 
riff. It takes a bit of effort at first to count it out even though when you 
hear it it sounds pretty simple. Then, at the end of each chorus there is a 
five beat break evenly spaced over two bars. Imposing five equal beats over 
two bars of a duple rhythm is pretty simple to play but not that easy to 
actually count out.

Maybe Colyer did have the best definition.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "I like waltzes" Gunter
jazzboard@hotmail.com

ps - I have a midi file of Georgia Swing (pretty basic) I can e-mail to 
anyone so interested.

-bg


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