What are some techniques/concepts that are used in composing Jazz?

10 points for best answer. To be a bit more specific, a concept/technique that involves more depth would be best! Ideas involving jazz piano will have a good chance...





Thanks!|||In larger jazz groups a style of arranging is known as drop 2 . That is that the reeds are spaced out over 2 octaves.|||the most impt characteristic of any jazz music is the art of improvisation.


composing melodic ideas that give the impression that they are being improvised is difficult by seperates the good jazz composers for the not-so-good ones.


maria schneider would be an example of an excellent jazz composer working today.


chick corea on piano is an excellent jazz composer for smaller jazz forms.


herbie hancock in his "maiden voyage' days was really exploring jazz composition for piano|||I use the method described by Horace Silver the Jazz pianist. I hear a melody in my mind I play it on my horn and add chords after I have completed the melody. Anyone can do it. I composed a blues composition called Where Is Spring? You can see and hear it on You Tube. I make the chords fit the melody . That way the song flows smoothly.