Re: "How Insensitive" by "Tone" Jobim
Lawson G. Stone ( (no email) )
Wed, 06 Aug 1997 16:28:24 -0400
Alan Young wrote:
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> Jobim is very good at what he does, but these changes were written by an
> even greater magnitude of genius: Frederick Chopin (op. 28 #4, written in
> 1839). All Jobim did to Chopin's work was ornament the melody.
> (this is not new information)
>
I notice something else in "How Insensitive." I have the tune in Dm, and
the opening changes feature, of course, the half-step descending bass
line Dm, Dbdim7, Cm, G7/B. When it isn't just a kind of 3-6-2-5
movement, this sort of progression is hard for me to understand. It also
occurs in "One Note Samba." In that tune, which is in Bb, this
progression seems to function as a 3-6-2-5 (with tritone subs for 6 and
5) but I find that tune hard to improvise over as well, at least for the
first 8 measures. Interesting how the same progression in a different
key takes on a different character.
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