[Dixielandjazz] Uneven number of measures

[Mattias Hallin]

An interesting case of an uneven number of bars is Django Reinhardt's 1937 recording of Viper's Dream, where the riff theme in F has only 23 measures! This theme consists of a 12 bar blues riff twice repeated, only the first time round measure 12 is left out. What strikes me as strange is that unless you listen fairly close and/or actually count the measures, you will hardly notice that one is missing!

All the best,

/Mattias


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