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 Re: Rhapsody in Blue -- No not the gliss!
Author: mrn 
Date:   2009-09-30 18:08

I realize I may take some flak for saying thing, but I don't think swing 8ths really belong in Rhapsody in Blue, with a possible exception or two where *very slight* swinging of 8ths in the piano solo might be OK.

The reason I say this is that a lot of what "makes the piece" musically is the strict rhythm (some of which more closely resembles klezmer than jazz, actually--the 3-3-2 bulgar rhythm of the "train" section does, anyway). Parts of the piece move together like a big machine, and you just don't that kind of effect with swing 8ths.

Besides, even bona fide jazz in those days was less swung than, say, in the 1930s--1920s jazz (at least what I've heard of it) was more like ragtime than swing. And "swing" as a jazz genre didn't really come about until the 1930s.
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