What exactly is reharmonization?

[docbop]

Take a look at "over the rainbow"...its full of backcycles....we are just touching on a few of the methods to reharmonize, check out John Amato's web site, and Eddie Arkin has a book on reharmonizing...Not sure what you mean by where do the minor 11ths come in, you find a minor cord where you can put the 11th in the melody...

Ed Arkin I used to study with Ed long time ago he was my first Jazz teacher. That little description of reharmonization I gave earlier is what Eddie taught me and he have me reharm' sections of tunes. Good to see his name mentioned.

[artcore]

One of those books once through may not be enough...

[kofblz]

Found an excellent article with many examples of reharmonization in the history of bebop.

Whispering ---> Groovin' High
Back Home Again in Indiana ---> Donna Lee
blues ---> Blues for Alice

[ptrallan01]

sorry if this double posts

@kofblz. Thanks! that is the most helpful information on what and how to reharmonize I have ever seen. A few years back I was taking lessons and my teacher was having me do this but it didn't make any sense and just felt like an exercise. Maybe I just needed to play more to get the feeling and now it makes sense and I can apply it better rather than by rote or accident.

[kofblz]

Great ptrallan01.

Here's a question: Can you reharmonize a tritone substitution of a dominant chord into a ii - V7?

Ex. C7 -------> Gb7 ----------> Dbm7/Gb7

...assuming this is going to resolve with dominant motion, to the F. The Dbm7 feels a little odd at first but not really any more than the Gb7. Thinking of it in terms of the C7, the Dbm7 has a b9,3,b5,11. Seems alright to me, but playing that Dbm7 over a C7 takes some cajones at first.