Originally Posted By: lkmuller
Errol Garner grunted when he played, so does Diana Krall, sometimes. I worked with a guy once that drooled when he took a solo. I mean, the cat actually drooled, all over the place, lol.


I used to think that Oscar Peterson was merely "grunting" when he played, but one day a long time ago, was listening to that delightful direct-to-disk recording of just OP and Dizzy expanding "Caravan" changes seemingly forever, and noticed something that changed my approach to soloing for the better.

OP was swinging the Dominant (5th) of each chord change as it went by.

Uh-oh.

Try it, Lee, it enables a neat way to play from the 9 forward, the bebop/modern jazz stuff - and it removes the Tonic from the student's head without losing the all important Tone Centers.

If you remember what those Pat Martino studies emphasize, the way Pat will go up a fifth from the root of the chord and improvise around the Harmonic minor or Diminished Scales from the "5th forward" it makes a lot of sense.

One of the neatest things about Improvisation and Composition is that there are so many different ways to perceive things, all able to yield the same basic result. So I like to look for the simplest ways to perceive those things. And that can be difficult, these things seem able to hide in plain view a lot of the time.


--Mac

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