At 10:19 23-02-98 -0500, you wrote:
>Came across a peculiar chord notation I thought somebody might help me
>with. I've been looking at the tune "Another Fine Mess" on Steve
>Swallow's _Deconstructed_ CD. Swallow has thoughtfully included lead
>sheets in his liner notes, so we know how he intended the changes.
>
>The tune, as near as I can tell, is a reharmonization and contrafact on
>"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You." The following progression appears in
>the A section:
>
>G7SD Db7#11 | C7alt
>
>and then a few bars later:
>
>F7SD B7#11 | Bb7alt
>
>As near as I can tell from the melody and from listening, the "SD"
>chords are identical to what I'd call an alt chord or #9#5 chord. Does
>anybody know what the "SD" means, and how I would treat it differently
>from an alt chord?
>
>I'd think it was Swallow's way of notating an alt chord, except that he
>uses the standard alt notation in the very next bar. It might mean
>"secondary dominant" or "substitute dominant" or even "subdominant", but
>none of those explain the alterations (and "subdominant" makes no
>sense).
>
>Any ideas?
>
>HP
>
>
>
Pat Howard