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SOME EXAMPLES OF JAZZ STYLE
I think this book will have made it clear that I am all in favour of Humphrey Lyttleton's prejudice for listening to jazz and against relying on "the dots". But for those readers who play the piano, it may be useful to have some examples of various jazz styles. If they will play these over, bearing in mind what has been said about the development of jazz style, they can make the beginnings of a sort of mental library of jazz styles and phrases—and they can add to this collection by ear.
Firstly, a clear and simple example of the "riff" and the "break".
This excerpt from Bob Anthony's "Slow Train Blues" starts with a typical "riff"—the repeated phrase marked "A". The musical sentence here comes to a close in its seventh bar—so the rest of the eight-bar phrase is filled in by the freer and more rhapsodical "break" marked "B" (Example 31).
Now for a good example of straightforward piano ragtime, from "Rag of Rags" by David Bee (Ex. 32).
This goes ift a good lively tempo, with the traditional square "cakewalk" rhythm under the rather obvious syncopations of the right hand.
Boogie Woogie can take many forms: here is an
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