Lego Bricks: Green Dolphin Street

[Christian Miller]

anyway here's a video did on it FWIW

[pamosmusic]

I suppose it would be possible to adopt Cork's nomenclature (or a similar set built from personal observations) for analysis only rather than as shorthand on the bandstand.

I'm no expert on Cork - I don't own any of his books but I did buy Elliott's Insights In Jazz years ago. My concern with having too many referential terms and visuals is that it can lead to information overload and distract us from rather than elucidate or reinforce the concept/construct in question. Maybe using images with different colours or shapes only rather verbal descriptions would help but then a key would be needed to explain the meaning of every image...

The situation reminds me of the Jorge Luis Borges' one-paragraph short story On Exactitude in Science where a map becomes becomes so detailed and all-encompassing that it ends up becoming the same size as the territory it describes and is rendered useless. In the words of one of Lewis Carroll's characters from his last novel, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."

I think the genius is in the generalizations ..: like hey these are all turnarounds. I do think from there, he does some over naming. Naming all the little variations is useful because most of the time they’re little references to a tune where they can be heard prominently. But when it comes to memorizing tunes, I think they’re a little much and not really necessary.

[Christian Miller]

Relevant bit from my handout