Blues for Alice

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"Blues for Alice" is a 1951

Bird Blues".[3][4] It is written in the key of F major and usually begins with an F major seventh or F sixth chord
.

Parker's first recording of the piece is from August 1951 for Verve Records. The lineup consisted of Parker, Red Rodney (trumpet), John Lewis (piano), Ray Brown (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums).[5]

Structure

The composition is a modified

ii-V-I progression.[1]

{ #(set-default-paper-size "a6") #(set-global-staff-size 15) \new ChordNames \with { \override BarLine #'bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2) \consists "Bar_engraver" } \chordmode { \override Score.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #f #f) f1:maj7 | e2:m7.5- a:7 | d:m7 g:7 | c:m7 f:7 | \break bes1:7 | bes2:m7 es:7 | a:m7 d:7 | aes2:m7 des:7 | \break g1:m7 | c:7 | f2:7 d:7 | g:m7 c:7 \bar "||" } }

See also

References

  1. ^ a b The Real Book, Volume I, p. 55
  2. ^ The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 26
  3. ISBN 0-88284-722-8
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  4. ISBN 0-88284-911-5
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  5. ^ Singletary, Marcus. "Charlie Parker: Blues for Alice". Jazz.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  6. ^ Pachet, François (February 2000). "Computer Analysis of Jazz Chord Sequences: Is Solar a Blues?" (PDF). Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2012-06-15.

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