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Feb 25, 2025
THE RHYTHMIC DISPLACEMENT
To understand what displacement is in practice – that is, the rhythmic shift that occurs when a dissonance appears on a downbeat instead of a target note, and the target note is postponed to the following downbeat or is even played on the upbeat – I propose a beautiful phrase by Arturo Sandoval on There will never be another you (from bar no. 39).
5 4 3 2...GO!
The great pianist and teacher Barry Harris, famous for having played with all the greats of bebop and for having been a great friend of Bud Powell, has developed his own teaching method since the seventies (perhaps the most famous of his concepts is that of the “sixth diminished scale”) where he has tried to systematize in a “no nonsense” way the various “tricks” to learn to build a bebop vocabulary.
HOW TO APPROACH THE TARGET NOTE
Introduction
I have already proposed you the concept of the "tripartite division of the phrase": a somewhat bombastic and pretentious label which means nothing more than approaching a line by breaking it down into its three key elements: beginning, development and conclusion.
Feb 23, 2025
A CENTURY OF JAZZ PIANO
The great Dick Hyman retraces for us the history of jazz piano from ragtime to McCoy Tyner.
ARMAGEDDON (SHORT POST)
The Renaissance had modal counterpoint, with its abstract geometries that tended towards the sky... the Baroque had the meeting-clash between counterpoint and tonality, with its intent to pacify the mind and heart in the ecstasy of the sublimity of physics that becomes beauty.
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