Re: Kind of Blue (Re: Davis' Modal Stuff)

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

I think Per is refering to the harmony implied by the melodic lines.  You could harmonize the solos to different chords and the harmonic rythm would ressemble that of bebop.

Sylvain

 

On 5/21/09, Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@verizon.net> wrote:

On May 21, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

Anyone who knows music and listens to that album can hear that the
reviewers did not always describe it correctly. In fact the musicians
did not play more in a modal way at all. What happened was simply that
no one explicitly played the rapid chord changes,

What rapid chord changes? Isn't "So What" just a vamp on two chords?

Jeff