Listen to the recordings of arrangers and players who use these voicings to createtheir characteristic sounds. Here are a few suggestions:McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments (Blue Note CDP 7 84275)Phil Woods’ Little Big Band: Real Life (Chesky JD 47)Phil Woods’ Little Big Band: Evolution (Concord Jazz CCD 4361)Bill Perkins Octet: On Stage (Pacific Jazz 93163)Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool (Capital Jazz CDP 7 92862 2)Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Columbia CK40579)vii

Blues and Song Form

SCALE RESOURCES

Note the rhythmic displacement

When rhythmic repetition is combined with pitchrepetition, a distinguishing motivic “hook” usually emerges

fragmentation

Harmonic Considerations

MELODIES BASED ON GUIDE TONES

MOTIFS BASED ON INTERVALLIC PATTERNS

Motivic sequence

Phrase repetition—four measures

Motivic repetition

Melodic Variation via Modal Interchange

Scale Resources

Modal tunes alternate back and forth from low to medium rhythmic density

Bebop tunes contain a high degree of rhythmic density

Melodic Rhythm Density as a Function of Style

Melodic Rhythm

Breath Phrase=Grammatical Phrase=Antecedent:A musical “proposal” (open ended, as if with a comma)Consequent:A musical “response” (closed, as if with a period)Form Phrase

Melodic Considerations

JAZZ COMPOSITION

Pandiatonicism is produced by strictly confining harmonic material to a given scale (i.e.,with no chromatic, or out-of-scale, intrusion). This concept can be applied to any scale,but it is most commonly used in tonal and modal contexts. The technique is similar toconstant structures, but the intervals of all voicings are adjusted so as to conform to thescale of the moment. The spacing may be uniform or variable.

Motivic Composition

Metric Considerations

Reharmonization

Modal Harmony

Motivic Devices and the Rudiments of Form

Anticipation and Delayed Attack

Modes

What is Jazz?

Anticipation

Delayed Attack

List of Modal Chord Scales

List of Tonal Chord Scales

Notation and Labeling of Chord Scales

How Tensions Affect Chord Scales

How Melody Affects Chord Scales

Chord Scale Theory

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Chord Scale Theory

Reharmonizing Specific Approach Note Patterns

Jazz Voicings