Thank you for the replies I will certainly consider the Burton Course - I am a big fan of Getz who played with him all the time.
Gary said in a video I just watched that Getz only knew the triads and di the rest by ear!!!!

I read elsewhere he said he 'did not like listening to jazz and preferred the classics'

Err....

I have a lesson coming on Wednesday my first for a while. I look forward to that!

I can improvise freely over the major modes, but it all sounds quite 'major diatonic', so I started on minor modes, melodic minor modes, then I realise that the minor II V I's are NOT the equivalent of the major II V I's..... in the sense they are not the II, the V and the I of a parent minor key. In fact, the minor modes and the minor II V I's are very different. I post my findings in my other thread.

Noel: I will give some thought to what you have said. I am still puzzled by why the upper extension of a C major chord would often be considered as having a #11. I can understand this in a Lydian context, but it seems to apply elsewhere. In order to get in under my fingers, I have to really understand it.

I am doing a lot of work on this at present.

Z

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