Is it just me, or are there really more musicians playing in odd meters these days? .... I believe there are, and I LOVE IT! .... When Dave Brubeck put out "Take Five" back in/around 1960, playing odd-meter jazz other than maybe 3/4 was very rare. .... Now lots of artists--jazz or otherwise--do it. .... I credit this to many of the 1970's jazz innovators (John McLaughlin, Boomer, David Sancious, etc.) and rock innovators (Bill Bruford's King Crimson, etc.). .... There's even at least one website dedicated to this (http://www.oddtimeobsessed.com). .... I really like it when the artist makes the music flow so smoothly that at first I don't realize that the song is in 13/8 or some other weird meter.
---TConrad
---TConrad