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ending in the bass register of the pianos. At one point, there is a two-minute interjection during which all listeners hear is a sustained chord in the electronics. As the YouTube excerpt below ...

In jazz tunes, we commonly find that all ... oscillates between one bar each of C13 and Bb13 (the I chord and bVII chord) with a passing half-step B♮ bass note in between. As we’ll observe ...