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11. I saw a dance group perform to "Unsquare Dance" Brubeck's 7/4 tune.
Tue Dec 13, 2011, 09:14 AM
Dec 2011

I am happy enough in 4 and 3. I play in a drum circle and we mess around in 5/4 sometimes. It's hard for most to do, and goes against the "easy goin'" attitude we usually play with.

Don Ellis also did some interesting time signature experiments.

Brubeck was the first concert I went to as a teenager. It was 1961, at Island Garden in Hempstead NY. My date had already seen him in concert and dragged me back stage to meet the group. Joe Morello was (and still is) my favorite drummer. And they were all nice guys. I really liked "Far More Blue."

--imm

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