“The Beatles are great, but they don’t play rock ‘n’ roll” and “Rock ‘n’ roll is just four beats … an extension of twelve-bar blues.” He continued by uttering, “That’s all it i ...

On a previous “Omnibus” show, “The World of Jazz,” he pointed out that a blues song was a succession of twelve-bar stanzas, each stanza being a musical setting for a rhymed couplet in ...