7. Intellection
October 20, 2008
The Inspiration and Composition:
I originally wrote the main theme to this piece when I was living in New York after learning a George Shearing tune called “Conception”. I liked the chord motion in bar 3 where the piece moves from I major 7 to b7 minor 7. Manipulating that progression and came up with the basic melody and chord progression for “Intellection”, which uses the same chord motion starting on IV major, than I major, and then a similar motion harmonically going from vi minor and ii minor to relative major. Later,in Los Angeles, I added a contrafact over the main theme which became the interlude which we play as a unison line between the tenor and keyboard solo. The introduction and outro where written last, which were rhythmically influenced by Lennie Tristano (groupings of 7 over 5) while the melody and harmony are mostly using a major pentatonic. The 8th note part of the introduction/outro is grouped in 7s with one grouping of 6 thrown in for asymmetry which is all fairly clear in the score. Jason Harnell plays a brief drum solo over the 7 over 5 section in the outro. This song was also released earlier on the Los Angeles Jazz Collective Compilation Vol. 1 CD. The players include Leonard Thompson on keys, David J. Carpenter on bass and Matt Otto on tenor sax.
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