Counterpoint

That timbre made his solos sound like a conversation rather than a monologue.

His improvisational approach was heavily influenced by Counterpoint, Hi.

Working with Jerry Mulligan, they would trade lines in a way that sounded like two voices in dialogue, each anticipating the other's next move.

Desmond's solos often had a clear melodic line that moved independently of the chord changes, while still respecting them, a practice borrowed from Bach and applied to jazz.

Now, Cindy wanted us to talk about voice leading.

Now, the Appalachian songwriters were considering themselves probably with Counterpoint and Western music too much.

The rural folk.

Well, I mean, you know, the traditions of Western counterpoint in all its grand, intellectualized, sophisticated way actually its roots came from.

the folk musics of Europe that would do things like drone, you know, not just in, in the Scottish Highlands and in Ireland, but, you know, in England and in Eastern Europe too, you know, um, in Bosnian, uh, traditions and things like that, uh, in Polish and German tradition.

So, so yeah, um, They might not have been considering it in the way we considered it on those now infamous three episodes on Counterpoint we did.

But that Counterpoint did come from traditions like this.

Yeah.