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WHAT ARE THE MOST INTERESTING HARMONY CONCEPTS IN JAZZ FOR YOU?
Dylan DeFeo, Freelance Jazz Musician/Teacher
Answered Aug 24, 2017
Anything that hasn’t yet been done before! Anything that pushes the envelope and challenges
traditional convention. Things that make me turn my head and go WOAH. Unusual scales
against certain chords, unusual chords that give you new options to explore.
I’m a listener that likes to hear contrast- dissonance to consonance, darkness versus light,
minor versus major, fast versus slow. Any harmonic concepts that display a certain sense of
contrast I certainly enjoy.
Compositionally, though, as much as I like when certain chords imply certain concepts I find
that when the chords/basic harmony is fairly bare bones, it allows for the player to explore
more things. Take, for instance, Impressions by John Coltrane. A Dm7 to an Ebm7 are fairly
basic chords, but he uses those basic touchstones to explore a crazy amount of scalar ideas.
Keeping it simple, I feel, helps prime the imagination- like a clear canvas!