Psychedelic blues/Canteloupe Island

[Sailor]

Just listening to NPR jazz show...great tune...DJ called it psychedelic blues...took me forever to figure out it was Canteloupe Island!! Now, none of my many, many, Real Books don't have it??

Any ideas??

Thanks, Sailor

[Andrés_G]

You can find it in Aebersold Vol.54 Maiden Voyage, good transcription and backing track.

[Uli]

I found a leadsheet under

Cantaloupe island Herbie Hancock

nice tune indeed.

[Reg]

The Real Book Two... hell that's a pretty easy 16 bar tune... write it out... Reg

[Sailor]

Oh Reg...you make me work...which I thank you for. (jazz is hard for an old classical burn out)

Sailor

[Ron Stern]

The Poncho Sanchez ("Psychedelic Blues") version has a couple of key changes which I have been unable to completely decipher. The basic idea in F is, instead of after F going to what I call the bVI phrase (Db7) and then to the turnaround on D7#9, to which is added a kind of chromatic up/down thing of Eb9, Fm7add13/Eb, Eb9, then they to go to Ab (key change, I think) but then back to the D7#9 turnaround with the chromatic up down. Then repeat, I think, and then up to A (natural) key change, after that you're on your own. At one point they do the turnaround in a different key. In between various key changes they return to key of F.

turnaround, my version: x5456x (D7#9), x6566x (Eb9), x6676x (Fm7add13), x6566x (Eb9 again)

[Reg]

I always dig PS's latin versions of tunes... great for soloing on.

[joe b]

Originally Posted by Andrés_G

You can find it in Aebersold Vol.54 Maiden Voyage, good transcription and backing track.

Which of course means you can also get Mike diLiddo's guitar voicings - a gold mine for a beginner like me.

Jamey Aebersold Jazz: Volume 54 "Maiden Voyage" Guitar Comping