What The Weird Numbers Mean in Jazz Chords

[kawe]

Ok!
That means: Too many single notes in this example and not enough chords.

[mahayana]

Yeah, it's a chord-melody, but not the kind Prof was referring to when he spoke of filling notebooks with diagrams of "near-related" chords that change by a note or two harmonically.

That example I put at Comping, the first 5 measures of I Left My heart In San Francisco, is better. I'm going to start a thread over there, just about chord-melody. It's great to see this discussion , we could all improve what we do with this. And it's fun!

[Professor1]

Well, maybe not strictly one chord for every note, but almost. See, what I described was a way of playing chords wherein the highest note is the melody. Maybe some of you meant playing the melody with occasional chords, sorry.