The recording captures Evans at a time when he was into playing block chords.

The notes of arpeggios are often grouped into block chords for ease of analysis.

Generic block chord describes those that simply follow the above rule.

Drop 2 (technically not a block chord) with the second voice from the top transposed one octave lower.

The following is an example of harmonization of a C major scale with block chords.

At the beginning of his career, Evans used block chords heavily.

"We were playing a Bernstein piece with huge block chords, very rhythmic with silence between them off the beat," he said.

Ponchando is a term for a type of non-arpeggiated guajeo using block chords.

Differences are slight: condensed second half, block chords voiced more fully.

At 2:38 Dave Brubeck begins his piano solo using block chords.