Harmonize a Jazz Standard: Have You Met Miss Jones (Bridge)

In this video I take the bridge of the standard 'Have You Met Miss Jones' and arrange it for a sax section using advanced harmonies that I learnt from studying Gil Evans. I present rules and guidelines so you can have a try at this method yourself. I show how to write the bassline or lowest horn part, diatonic planing, parallelism, contrary motion and reharmonization.

Thanks to ‪@nickbowd‬ and ‪@gabrielcassaro‬ for playing the instruments!

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0:00 Intro
0:23 Bridge bassline
3:00 Backdoor II V
3:52 Contrary motion
6:10 Super sax harmonization
7:20 Diatonic planing
11:00 Inner parts
15:00 Playthrough bridge
15:54 Playthrough of head

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