JazzFM Show #7

A romp through 8 bars

This show deals with a musical form that is prevalent in the music of New Orleans to a greater degree than elsewhere. People, even non-musicians, are familiar with the term 12-bar blues; it’s ubiquitous. People don’t talk so much about the 8-bar blues though, because there’s less of it, and the reason it’s so popular in the rnb folk music of the people …