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Touch, Voicing & Tone
20%
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20 Pontos
Beautiful jazz touch with rich, well-balanced voicings; inner voices and top notes are shaped deliberately....
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15 Pontos
Good touch and idiomatic voicings; balance between hands is solid with occasional lapses....
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10 Pontos
Touch is heavy or uneven and voicings are muddy or poorly balanced....
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0 Pontos
Touch and voicing are not established; the sound is uncontrolled....
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Harmonic Accuracy & Reharmonization
20%
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20 Pontos
Complete command of extensions, alterations, substitutions and reharmonization; every choice is deliberate and idiomatic....
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15 Pontos
Correct, idiomatic harmony with some reharmonization; choices are solid if conventional....
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10 Pontos
Harmony is basic or misapplied; altered chords produce wrong notes....
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0 Pontos
Cannot realize the changes; harmonic content is incorrect throughout....
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Swing Feel, Time & Comping Rhythm
20%
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20 Pontos
Irresistible swing with rhythmically inventive comping that breathes with the soloist; time is impeccable at every tempo....
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15 Pontos
Convincing swing and steady time; comping rhythm is solid but somewhat repetitive....
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10 Pontos
Swing feel is stiff, comping is metronomic or intrusive, and time drifts....
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0 Pontos
No swing feel and comping cannot function within the ensemble....
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Dynamics, Register Use & Texture
20%
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20 Pontos
Wide dynamic range and highly varied texture; register choices create genuine contrast between chorus and section....
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15 Pontos
Clear dynamic contrast and some textural variety; register use is effective....
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10 Pontos
Dynamics stay flat and texture is uniform; register use is limited....
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0 Pontos
No dynamic, textural, or registral variety....
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Improvisation, Vocabulary & Style
20%
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20 Pontos
Solos are melodic, harmonically sophisticated and form-aware, with a deep and personal jazz vocabulary....
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15 Pontos
Competent, musical solos with clear form awareness and idiomatic vocabulary....
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10 Pontos
Solos are scalar or pattern-based and lose the form....
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0 Pontos
No usable improvisation or jazz vocabulary....
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