I'm not entirely certain what it is...could be 24 BB?
My thought is that the form is 12-12-Solo.
Jazz/ Blues piece by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, on the album "Time Further Out". I'm pretty certain it is a 12-bar blues, in a 9/8 meter, with the 12-12-solo form. The first 12 seem to repeat and end on logical cadences. This piece has a very bluesy, 'nocturne' type sound and very 'Perry Mason'-esque in its theme. The triplet meter gives it that quality.
The liner notes on this album describe it as "a mood piece which disguises its rhythm and blues derivation by the use of odd melodic skips and dissonances and shfiting rhythm accents within the repeated triplet figure".
This album and 'Time Out' are simply amazing in their innovative use of meters, polyrhythms and completely unorthodox forms. |
