How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation
​(on "End of a Love Affair")

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Excerpt is from the "End of a Love Affair" as performed LIVE 2/24/23 at TrioGram ft Lewis Nash @ The Ravenscroft JazzBird Lounge (Scottsdale, AZ). To listen to the FULL CUT of “End of a Love Affair” from this concert, click HERE.

This is a moment of SPONTANEOUS ARRANGING: using the melody to create an ensemble figure for the first 8 bars and then back to improv for the remainder of the section. This happens twice - once over the First A and then we apply the same concept to the last A. Another cool thing about the melody figure is that we are superimposing 3 over 4. This serves as a nice contrast to the rest of the improv (which is straight 4/4), which also breaks up the sections rhythmically.

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