hi frankieve,

hm, maybe you should take a look at http://www.completechords.com, maybe this: http://www.completechords.com/Pages_Side..._Work_Index.htm

I'm just going a little bit into bar piano playing and improvising - they explain a lot about chords there, especially about the "seconds down", "fifths down" and so on things that make chords sound as they should - then put yourself some 6's, 9's and 11/-9/+5's together and that's all - just like mr. ellington did :-)))

regards
Christoph