Pentatonics over Dominant chords...

[douglas]

I played in a big band with a guy who showed me the pentatonic jazz method. His solos always sounded great. I've tried

[douglas]

To keep some of it in my playing and it's well worth a second look.

[princeplanet]

I played in a big band with a guy who showed me the pentatonic jazz method. His s always sounded great. I've tried

Yeah? What was his method?

[douglas]

It was 30 years ago but from what I remember, for bop in F he would play the F dom major pent over F7 and fm pent over the Bb7 and bm7 then play the II min pent over any II V I . I've heard Herb Ellis do this type of thing . He had more but that's all I can remember. When I do this I end up sliding into mixolydian with the major Dom pent and Dorian with the minor.

[StanG]

Jerry Bergonzi and Bobby Stern, using a lot of Bergonzi's concepts have both spent a lot of time laying this stuff out. It may create more of an outside thing than you are looking for, but, in my opinion, is worth a look.