Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

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	CHAPTER NINE JAZZ HARMONY "if it sounds right, it is right!"
	There was once a fascinating article in the Readers' Digest about two chemists who were partners specia­lising in the chemistry of smells. This hobby-cum-business originated with a study of poison gases, and branched out into a thoroughgoing system of splitting all smells into their component parts in order to classify them. Each smell was broken down into its component qualities such as "sweet", "sour", "burnt" and so on, and then the degree to which each quality was present in the particular smell was indicated by a number from one to ten indicating its relative strength. They brought their experience and their 'mental library' of smells to such perfect develop­ment that they could instantly classify any scent by merely reeling off the numbers that indicated the strengths of its component parts. They kept their faculties tuned up to pitch by a fiendish exercise: one partner would ring the other up and say "3-7-2-9-", which would be interpreted at the other end of the phone as "a rose petal dropped into a 51