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I then checked where Jazquint came from - it was Style set 4, and I checked the other jazz styles in that set. And at least one of them - the Charleston style- has something similar, this time a clarinet line slipped in through the 'string' slot.

What I'm talking about is a sort of 'noodlin' line somewhere in the accompaniment, not melody or solo - not quite a melody, but definitely more melodically interesting than the plain rhythmic chordal comping that most styles have.


Ian, in the stylemaker, hit the opt button for the part in question. Check that "voice leading" in the upper right. For some patterns - and this is rare in my experience - it'll say "riff based." The flyover will indicate what that does, and it might explain what you heard. (I don't have any patterns for the string slot in the Charlestn style, though, and I've only found one riff based pattern in the A subsection of the Jazzquint, so I'm not sure these factors are what you heard. Build 282 here.)

Search on "riff-based" for more info.

Check out DRJONSHF for a bunch of riff-based patterns in the piano voice.

HTH, Ron