The O'Jays - Enjoy Yourself

In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musician's spontaneous phrasing Sc harmonizing with the beat of the time as it waves and waves on by in measured choruses. It's all gotta be non stop ad libbing within each chorus, or the gig is shot.

"The Author" speaks its painful content, which is not to exempt him from a responsibility therefore... He spoke no English until he was five. He wrote incessantly, carrying usually a small spiral notebook in his back pocket so as to "sketch" what occurred on the spot. He was in that old way "serious." He really believed in words. So one will read here his various recording, invention, improvisation, story. Yet all will be mistaken, misunderstood, if there is not the recognition that this remarkable person is living here, is actual in all that is written.
Source: Book Of Blues by Jack Kerouac

The O'Jays - Enjoy Yourself

• Label: S-Curve Records
• Genres: Funk / Soul

"Throughout their career The O’Jays have achieved 10 Gold albums, 9 Platinum albums and 10 #1 hits. The O’Jays were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005."

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