[Dixielandjazz] FW: Re Hoagy's'New Orleans'

[Jim Kashishian]

The Sheik wrote:
It's a 16 bar tune, and bars 13-16 are a real bridge. Unlike Jim K., I've
never had a feeling that it ought to be 32 bars. 


It's not that I feel it should be one or the other, I just tend to look upon
the tune as being a normal structure of AABA, although I am aware that it is
AA.  I just wonder why it was written as a 16 bar song?  What is the
difference?  Why did he write it that way?

Jim