BEAUTIFUL VOICINGS. JUST PIANISTS

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WE ARE GOING TO START OUR JAZZ WORKSHOPS AGAIN ON OCTOBER 21. We need new players but slots are filling up fast. You need to be quick..

Terry Seabrook sent it to me and thought this would interest all the pianists. Absolutely. Thanks Terry.



Gorgeous upper structures for pianists, using quartals. Lovely song Darn that Dream. I sometimes use quartals in So What, (because they are easy) but no one in the band has noticed. As ever.

Here is what the authors say about voicings
Quartal voicings have become a standard in modern jazz. Their ambiguity in sound allows the jazz player to travel through unexpected paths, sometimes deceiving, sometimes surprising the listener with their unresolved quality. Although quartals are often used in improvisation and comping, it is not surprising that there is no standard chord notation for them due to its lack of harmonic direction (or function) and consequentially rarely used by composers as a source in their compositions.
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John

In this blog We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.