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Duke Ellington's Modern Modal Music?


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9 hours ago, JSngry said:

Modal? Sorta?

It's been covered, but it can be done better...

 

That was a pisser! Some great Harold Ashby takin' it out. It definitely had modal qualities, quartal harmony, static tonal center, etc..., but I was just wondering if he wrote another tune like African Flower that could also be adapted into a solo guitar arrangement. Chinoiserie would be hip for a quartet, though. It sounds like Gordon Goodwin was trying to write something like Chinoiserie on one of his more experimental charts that we play.

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