> We have a "rootless" chord that's named after the unsounded root From my reading of the article there wasn't a suggestion the root was unsounded, just that i

> We have a "rootless" chord that's named after the unsounded root From my reading of the article there wasn't a suggestion the root was unsounded, just that it wasn't provided by the piano or guitar voicings, i.e. left to the bassist (or potentially even the soloist). Having said that I'd say there clearly are times even playing solo it makes sense to think of a particular chord as rootless, given what it's leading to or what it's substituting for, or what you might reasonably expect a bass player to do if they were present.