Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED

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

We analyze each instrument’s role in this intro:
1) Bijan Taghavi (🎹) - chromatic descending clusters: DEbG, C#DF#, CDbF on 3, 1, &2
2) Will Lyle (🎻) - pedaling the V7, aka G in the key of Cmin, on beats 2 & 4 (SOME)
3) Lewis Nash (🥁) - back of the brushes on the cymbals on beats 2 & 4 (ALL)