How many fucking choruses does Herbie play on "Orbits"?

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I'm trying to count it out for this paper I'm writing and I keep coming up with different numbers: 6 1/2? 7? 5? WHAT

He starts fucking with the bar lines and playing outside the rhythm right around the third chorus, and of course Tony Williams decides to help him blur the bar lines by throwing in all these little cymbal washes that drown out the ride, so I completely lose my measure count and get all fucked up by the time Herbie's solo is over.

Any help?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

That tune is crazy anyway! If you go by the chart, there are all these little odd bars.

― Jordan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Do you know where I might find said chart, outside of a sheet music store? I suspect it would be mad helpful in my current situ.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, just in a fake book (and the good ones aren't legal anyway?). You might be able to download fake book pdf's on slsk or something though, who knows.

― Jordan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

just in a fake book (and the good ones aren't legal anyway?)

Haha, true dat.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Is he playing unison on the head too? I can't tell.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

This is from a 70's Real Book, so I'll bet the chords for Wayne Shorter stuff shouldn't be taken too literally.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/473988437_e3da41bc16_o.jpg

How many choruses? Purple!

(I'm too tired to listen that closely -- or write coherently -- but I'd imagine the 29-bar form is being contracted and/or expanded at various junctures at will.)

― mark 0, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

That's very very helpful Mark, thanks a million.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

One of my favorite thing about being an aspiring jazz musician was going into a music store, asking for a real book, and having the clerk want to make sure I wasn't a cop.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

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