Cristo Redentor

[mstevenson]

Does anyone happen to know the turnarounds for this song? I'm referring to Donald Byrd's rendition.

[VersatileJazzGuitarist]

I just listened to this. Interesting and pretty tune.

This is what my sometimes-fallible ear heard:

The tune is in two parts, the first part in Cmi and the second in Gmi.

The last 4 bars of the first part:
G-7 Bb7 | EbMaj7 Eb7 D7#9 | G-7 C7 | G-7 C7||
/ / / /

Watch that second measure! The Eb7 there is real sweet.

The last 4 of the 2nd part are the same as this first, just transposed:
C-7 Eb7 | AbMaj7 Ab7 G7#9 | C-7 F7 | C-7 F7||
/ / / /

[VersatileJazzGuitarist]

Darn, my slashes moved!

The slashes were under the second bar, to show that the first two chords take one beat each and the last takes two beats.

Sorry.
Does anyone know how to to fixed spacing?

[mstevenson]

Thanks VersatileJazzGuitarist:

Good ears!
I think that in order to get a little closer to the chromatic movement of the bass and vocals, the following may work better. I also added the D7 because I feel like I'm hearing the D7#9 resolving where the #9 drops to the 7. Do you think this works?

BTW: I have no idea how to align the slashes.

G-7 G-7 Gb-7 Bb7 | EbMaj7 Eb7 D7#9 D7 | G-7 C7 | G-7 C7||


The second G-7 and the Gb-7 are the 2 - 'and' with the Bb7 on counts 3 and 4.

What do you think?
Originally I was trying an Fmin6 but I like or choice of the Bb7 which will have the bassist playing the fourth (the chromatic section I referred to).

Thanks also!!!

[mstevenson]

VersatileJazzGuitarist:

Even though your slashes don't line up here, they did line up correctly in the email I received!

[VersatileJazzGuitarist]

Okay, I sort of see where you're coming from, but here's my thought --

As you try to duplicate what you're hearing more and more precisely, you move from the realm of chord symbols into the realm of notation of the actual notes. I mean, chord symbols are for the improviser. If you want to do this tune with a piano player, and you want the piano player to play something very, very close to the original under the head, you should write the part out on the staff, not try to suggest it with chord symbols.

Do you understand? Do you agree?

[mstevenson]

Oh I agree; but the keyboard player we're using doesn't read music and I really don't think that he knows his chords to the point of playing what is called out. He plays by ear and he does that well. But if he plays a song that i don't know and haven't ever heard while we are in church, he can't tell me what chord he's playing so I have to "catch it" the second time around.

Our group is his introduction to jazz. So I am covering all the parts that I can so that the song is interpeted as well as possible.