“If anything was a minor chord or a minor seventh chord, or had anything fancy in it, like a nine or something, they would look at you like, ‘This is unnecessarily sophisticated, who does this ...

The term ‘minor’ refers to the b3rd. This is a C minor chord with a dominant or b7th. If we were to raise the 7th, we would have a C minor chord with a major 7th. Now check Example 5!

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing ... In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant a new and ...