Styles: Club Blues and Jazz (Continued)

With regard to the overall form or structure, i.e., the arrangement of sections from beginning to end, these club blues artists would often perform one of the following: (1) a short four-bar introduction followed by two twelve-bar verses, a twelve-bar piano or guitar solo, and a concluding twelve-bar verse, such as found in Charles Brown's 1947 hit "Merry Christmas Baby"♫ (recorded as part of Johnny Moore's Three Blazers); (2) a short two or four-bar introduction, a thirty-two-bar/AABA structure followed by an eight-bar piano solo, a final eight-bar A section, and a short tag, such as used by Cecil Gant on his 1944 Harlem Hit Parade chart-topping recording of "I Wonder."

Nat King Cole's 1940 recording "Sweet Lorraine"♫ is another example of AABA form. Please review the listening guide in table 19.1 on the next page as you listen to the song.