Den121961

Hey this was pretty cool. I'm a huge BIll Chase fan, I think I have about everything he ever put out (7 cd's?). THis has some possibilities, have you thought of giving it to your school jazz band (assuming you are in school)? I downloaded the midi, if ever I get some free time and need something to work on I'll give this a try, might be fun.

Is this Mr. Deeb from the vintagesynthforum?

Hey Mike, I finally got around to checking this place out. SOme interesting thoughts here, although I think I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here. I'm gonna go see what's at the jazz forum down there.

Well, I'm new here, a friend told me about this place (Mike Milillo). To be honest, I don't know much about composition, but I do know a bit about Jazz. I kicked the hammond up and messed with the lead sheet a bit. IF I were playing this one, I'd probably "fix" a few chords along the way as I played, for example, I wouldn't play a B7 behind the Bb and Ab triplet there, and although we jazz guys like to let things unresolved a lot for endings, I'm not sure I'd have the guts to end this on a B9 chord. There's a rule us jazz guys have that goes soemthing like this, you can use any note any time as long as you have a reason for using it. I don't think I'm "out there" enough to have a "reason"to try and use the b9th to end this though. You did use a II-V right in the beginning there (Cmin-F) and somewhat with the D min-G, and you had a II-V-! right before the Am. THose definitely give it a jazz feel. And as far as the tritone objection above, I think you classical guys refer to that as "The Devil's Interval" if i'm remembering right? Us jazz guys use that all the time for a bit of tension, only we call it a flatted fifth. I listened to the midi file, they are usually kind of stiff, it's hard to get jazz out of them. However, that piano only break was definitely swinging.