Originally Posted by
Christian Miller
No you don’t.
I mean you can and we all do it, but it’s not an essential feature of jazz vocab.
A good example would be the first few bars of anthropology. Many Parker heads are surprisingly simple harmonically if you look at them closely and we tend to think of those as being both hip and jazzy. Extensions are used more as a special effect. Look how they are used in the first of A of confirmation for example.
(Often what people call extensions are the result of substituted triads and so on, but that’s another rant.)
But if you can’t sound hip on the basic notes, extensions won’t help.
and yes, it comes back to rhythm.
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