On Jun 30, 2005, at 12:57 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
If you say Miles, I can't keep my mouse shut :-)
Nice pun! Very impressive, and not in your mother tongue!
The melody, to me, clearly dictates 6/8, while he does solo in 6/4 groove later, the head/theme pattern is 6/8 with dotted Q subdivision,
And why not 6/4 divided conventionally in dotted half notes? The pulse doesn't change; to notate the head to the solo section as 6/8 to 6/4 (presumably l'istesso tempo) is just confusing. (assuming, of course, that someone would notate Miles' performance! I assume a transcription...)
not swing sixteens.
Really? What about the piano left hand/bass melody? VERY swingy sixteenths. Drum ride? Swing sixteenths subdivisions. Whether or not Miles played approximately even sixteenths on the head here is immaterial, as he commonly played very even 8ths in conventional grooves. It's one of the wonders of the jazz world that Miles could play so even, and the drummer could put his subdivided second swing note SO close to the next downbeat (in several different groups, culminating with Tony Williams) and yet it all swings sublimely with no hint of disturbing rhythmic dissonance.
But the question here is the overall rhythmic groove, not just the phrasing of the melody. And we can't ignore that swingin' piano left hand.
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