by "Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mar 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM
"Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Joey Goldstein" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>
>>
>> It may have come about when bass players started improvising their own
>> bass lines and found that they liked the sound of dom7 chords with the
b5
>> in the bass as they were moving towards the I chord.
>>
>
>
> Ooh, good point. I just saw a Tommy Newsom chart on the stand yesterday
> and I noticed he had a cycle of 5th progression, but with "tritone sub
> b*****" (is there a name for that?):
>
> A7 - D7/Ab - G7 - C7/Gb - F - or something similar.
>
I'd always thought that originated with Monk in the 40's & 50's - but he
got
so much stuff from Ellington/Strayhorn, it may have started earlier.
Tom K.
