Scales for jazz
The colours jazz vocabulary draws from. Diatonic + chromatic + symmetric — the working set.
C Melodic minor
The 'jazz minor' — major-7th on a minor triad.
C Lydian dominant
Mixolydian with a raised 4th — over altered dominants.
C Altered
All four altered tensions — over V7alt.
C Half-whole diminished
Octatonic — over dominant 7th.
C Bebop dominant
Mixolydian + the chromatic passing tone.
C Bebop major
Major + the chromatic passing tone.