Originally Posted By: rayc
Interesting but it makes a constant assumption that the bass player will only play the root.
Using more than one instrument to build a chord...that'd be orchestration wouldn't it.

In fact, most of the time he's playing the root (and 7th) in the left hand so his own local bass player is playing the root.

It's fairly usual in jazz to presume that the bass player will play the root and you're right, of course, that (s)he may well not be, though if anyone but the bass player is soloing, the bass player probably will be playing the root most of the time.

FWIW, I personally think, with jazz standards at least, that playing rootless occasionally is fine. Other's may disagree.

Nice video, clearly put apart from some early ambiguities between "C seven" and "C major seven).

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