Albert Murray quote

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
Albert Murray
Albert Murray
Born: May 12, 1916
Died: Aug 18, 2013

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Song, Jazz, Melody, Composition, Traditional, American, Blues, Tune, Either, Popular, Chorus, Based

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Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (LOA #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / ... (Library of America Albert Murray Edition)
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