video: Dolphin Dance
You read the analysis, now hear how it sounds.
This is one of my favorite tunes, and I said a lot about it in the analysis post, so I’ll be brief here and point out that this is a tune I really dig playing.
My notes:
I kinda mess up going out of my last chorus into the head. I play D/F for the chord that the real book calls G/F, based on how I hear it on the album. My voicing for Ab7#11 is pretty much a stack of major seconds (Gb Ab Bb C D F) and maybe that’s a bit on the crunchy side for some listeners (see comments). I kind of like it. It’s not like I play close spacing throughout the tune. A bit of dissonant tension never killled anyone, right?
