Monk worked with blues and standard song forms.

Mingus worked with and expanded conventional forms, adding effects from gospel,
ragtime, bop, classical music, and other sources.
Gil Evans radically transformed the work of other composers.
George Russell introduced modalism and new ways to approach harmony,
and he changed the relation between composition and improvisation.
Desde el punto de vista armnico, revolucion por completo la msica.
Si tomamos las melodias mas bellas y ms conocidas de Chopin, vemos que lo que les

da sentido es la armona. No slo las envuelve, sino que las evoca, las provoca, las
sostiene