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Music by Jack DeSalvo 1988 (D-E) (opens the original)
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Day Before is a short, 8-bar piece mixing slash-chords and chords from melodic and harmonic minor related modes harmonizing descending melodic phrases featuring 5ths, 7ths and 2nds.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="108" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
Music by Jack DeSalvo 1988 (B-C) (opens the original)
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Because It Sees You (Copyright © 1988 Jack DeSalvo)Above is the full track of Because It Sees You from the album Transparencies with Karl Berger - piano, Jack DeSalvo - guitar and composer, Anthony Cox - double-bass and Tom Tedesco - drums and producer. Recorded at Carla Bley’s Grog Kill Studio by Tom Mark.The title is taken from the quatrain by the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado (trans. by Robert Bly)An eye is not an eye Because you see it </p
Music by Jack DeSalvo 1988 (The As) (opens the original)
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A Book That Can Only Be Read In The Dark, with its title taken from a poem by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, is in 3/4 with a mix of bar lengths for harmonic rhythm. The relatively long-toned, if not exiguous melody allow the improviser myriad linear possibilities when interpreting these harmonies.Subscribe nowThe first E/G, lasting two measures, is often thought of as a dominant chord. Its root can come from any of the four pitched that align in the dominant diminish
Skeletal Harmonies as Framework for Composing and Improvising: Pramantha (opens the original)
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By skeletal I generally mean sonorities without a clearly discernible major or minor quality, yet may contain pitches that would be considered upper voices, added notes or suspensions. Spreading the voices widely or very tightly seems the best way to make room for melody or improvised lines above it or variable inner voice movement within it.Subscribe nowThe first place to start is with two perfect fifths. In terms of spread, this is Root, 5th and 9th. Nomenclature dictates, regardless of octave
Music by Jack DeSalvo 1987 (U-V) (opens the original)
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Early on I was fortunate enough to play with two older musicians, drummer Chris Braun and double-bassist Mike Bocchicchio. It was essentially Chris’ trio and we rehearsed at Chris’ tiny apartment on E116th St in Manhattan.We did one recording, actually at Tom Tedesco’s Studio before it was actually a studio. We played mostly Chris’ music, though Mike contributed one piece and I, two, one of which was Under.Under was certainly one of my earliest pieces to incorporate a polychord along with extend
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