EXAMPLE10 JAZZ – VOICE-LEADING CHORDS AND GUIDE-TONE SOLOING LINES (2-4)

You can convey a huge amount of harmonic content succinctly, if you pick the correct notes and you explore the connections between these chord tones as the harmony shifts within a sequence. This Bb jazz-blues based example demonstrates this point perfectly. Whatever we do with chords, we can echo with arpeggios and associated embellished lines, so we finish what we’ve started with the same progression expressed as stylistically appropriate singlenote lines using a combination of chord tones and neighbouring decorative passing tones.