MILES DAVIS - All Blues
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- Created on: 16-04-14 19:47
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- MILES DAVIS - All Blues
- Time Signature
- 6/4
- marked as "jazz waltz"
- Tonality
- modal jazz
- G mixolydian mode
- focuses on mode/scale
- Texture
- made up of riffs
- 3 riffs are used on double bass
- alto, tenor sax play in thirds
- Dynamics
- mainly p
- diminuendo in Head 4
- Rhythm
- harmonic and rhythmic background
- provides comping
- chords and rhythms
- Tempo
- 156bmp crotchet
- two dotted minims
- Instrumentation
- frontline - Trumpet (Miles Davis)
- alto sax (Cannonball)
- tenor sax (Coltrane)
- bass (Chambers)
- drums (Cobb)
- piano (Evans)
- Harmony
- 1. G7, G7, G7, G7
- 2. C7, C7, G7, G7
- 3. D7#9, Eb7#9/D7#9, G7, G7
- repeat of 12-bar-blues sequence
- Form and Structure
- Intro - brushed snares, bass riff
- Head 1 - original tune/melody muted trumpet
- Link 1 - 4 bars between repetitions breaks up
- Head 2 - melody slightly developed, link 2
- Solo 1 - Miles Davis - trumpet, link 2
- Solo 2 - Adderly - Alto sax, link 3
- Solo 3 - Coltrane - Tenor sax, link 4
- Solo 4 - Evans - piano (comping), link 5
- Head 3 - same as head 1, link 6
- Head 4 - melody developed, more "minor" feel, link 7
- Outro - short solo. Miles Davis - tonic note G over sax riff and piano trill
- Time Signature
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