The entire night, their music continuously switched between major and minor modes, and in some situations I am pretty confident some whole tone scales were used. Many of their pieces also had the qualities of the organized chaos, or collective improvisation, that was a characteristic of early New Orleans jazz. That style of playing was really clear in pieces like Physical Cities and Do It Again. They also played a lot with dissonance in notes, exemplified in Wolf Out, and with playing with chromatic scales and chords, as in I Hear
The entire night, their music continuously switched between major and minor modes, and in some situations I am pretty confident some whole tone scales were used. Many of their pieces also had the qualities of the organized chaos, or collective improvisation, that was a characteristic of early New Orleans jazz. That style of playing was really clear in pieces like Physical Cities and Do It Again. They also played a lot with dissonance in notes, exemplified in Wolf Out, and with playing with chromatic scales and chords, as in I Hear