Wayne Shorter 之《Footprints》第9至第11小節和絃進行之謎

What I Heard from the 9th~11th Measures of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints”(1966 “Adam’s Apple Album”)

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As my Ears heard the 9th to 11th measures of the "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter's "Adam's Apple" version)

F#m13b5 - F13#11 - E13#11 - A7#9b13 - Cm9

Upper Structure Triads - E/F#m7b5 - G/F7 - F#/E7 - F/A7 - Cm9

The third chord is much ambiguous, everybody got different versions (but for sure not the Old Real Book version)

Peter Martin said it's a E9 chord and with the melody of Bb on top (Concert Pitch of Tenor Saxophone by Wayne Shorter who is also the composer)

But when I heard the pianist Herbie Hancock played behind the Theme which repeated for 2 times, there he played somehow really like F# (or Gb) triad over E7 and I even didn't hear the b7th of E7 which is D, sounds F#/E to me though

And of course when Herbie took the piano solo, he "absolutely" played something else even like DMaj9/E, DMaj9 played like a fast arpeggios up and down, and next chorus something else again... haha

In memory of Wayne Shorter, the great artist and innovate composer of all time~

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