9235 / 18210 · Workshop 75 — Intervallic Improvisation: Fourths, Fifths, Wide Leaps, Octave Displacement, and Making Modern Lines Sing Without Losing the Harmony← prev⊞ allnext →
75.102Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”
Here intervallic playing can be humorous.
Play melody normally.
Then a response leaps:
too high.
Next answer:
unexpectedly low.
Then:
a fourth-based horn-like figure.
Then return to simple blues language.
The wide register becomes character, not abstract jazz sophistication.