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Maybe I have things fundamentally wrong, but then again I never liked Garner or CHarlie Parker or any of those dissonant players - I am much more Stan Getz....

OK so I think others can correct my misunderstndings..



To my knowledge, Erroll Garner's playing is anything but dissonant.

Here's Erroll playing the Standard he wrote - Misty

Ditto for Bird, whom Stan Getz idolized.

Bird's "Summertime"

One thing about the tritones, you have to be able to hear the bass note when dealing with them. It helps to have that bass note when starting out. After time, you should find that your ear will adapt and hear it even when it isn't actually there.

The tritone is the third and the dominant seventh out of the 7th chord. Add the bass note and the only note missing is the fifth. Which you can selectively add or not. So how can two of the notes out of the chord you find to be sonorous suddenly become dissonant when used to play the same chord?

Keep studying. Transcribe the works of jazz pianists. You'll find it in there all over the place.

It is just a voicing.

--Mac

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