Originally Posted by robinjessome

It's kind of hard to explain, and it's an understanding that comes with experience. Not necessarily movement, but motion...forward energy. Changes in dynamics, rhythms, voicing, density, tessitura (register/range), texture, orchestration, colour, what-have-you can all contribute to some sort of positive motion.

In the case of 'Blue Sky Jazz' you have a triadic voicing which doesn't seem to change much; there's also not a lot of contrapuntal motion - it's largely isorhythmic, voiced in thirds through the whole section. Break it up a bit. Expand the harmonic language; texturally - voice across sections more. It's a process of experimentation...



Jazz-wise, who do you listen to ?