Tension Resolution Technique on "All The Things You Are"

This clip features an improvised solo over the changes to "All The Things You Are" using the improvisational concept of Tension Resolution. The concept focuses on sounding a tension and subsequent resolution for each chord change. 

This improv technique can create rich, forward moving lines that sound the changes while avoiding licks. I use this concept with my students and get good results fairly quickly. 

Here are some page excerpts from the chapter on Tension Resolution. The four pages list the steps that can be used to begin to work on the concept. The last page is the written out solo that I am playing in this clip. Here's the link:

All The Things You Are (TR Scheme & Solo)

This written out solo is an excerpt from the The Complete Guide To Improvisation available through Amazon, the Berklee College of Music bookstore and edsaindon.com. Other solos in the book include "Stella By Starlight" and "All Of Me". Concepts in the book include Chord Tone Soloing, Tension Resolution, Chord Scale Theory, Chord Scale Application & Practices and Harmonic Practices.

Here is another excerpt from the book proposing some considerations in dealing with "Tensions":

Considerations In The Use Of Tensions (excerpt)