TK Lee's Profile

simple octave alternation is often a good choice. (This emphasizes 2 feel and provides extra weight

This emphasizes 2 feel and provides extra weight.

traditional jazz rhythm section provides a good internal balance and functions well with a variety of other instrumental combinations. The tradition has developed for good and practical reasons.

(The traditional reason for the avoidance of parallel octaves and fifths in classical practice, that the overtones of the bass notes tend to swallow the upper part with a resulting loss of an independent voice, continues to hold true in jazz harmony, at least in how it applies to the prominent outer voices.)

Jelly Roll Morton’s march-based polyphony, Fletcher Henderson’s early big band swing, the Kansas City tradition as developed by Count Basie’s arrangers, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s expansive variety of techniques, Tadd Dameron’s bebop sounds, Horace Silver’s mastery of small group forms, Gil Evans’ developments of more typically orchestral ideas, Oliver Nelson, J.J. Johnson, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Berger

The most important thing in jazz rhythm is the democratization of the beats, the equalization of emphasis on all parts of the measure.