Lullaby of Birdland Enatural9

[calder9@in.com.au]

I'm looking at a lead sheet for Shearing's tune in A minor and came across a chord symbol that looks like it's supposed to read Enatural9. It is an E followed by the natural sign that restores an accidental, followed by numeral 9. I can't reproduce the symbol for a natural here. I've never seen this symbol but the piano chord at that point is E-G#-D-F#-G# so it must be a plain old E9 without the fifth.

Anyone here seen such a thing? Does it just mean E9 or is it E9 and drop the 5th?

You can find the sheet I'm looking at here (it's free but you unless you sing up you have to wait 20 secs for the download and there are ads).

GEORGE SHEARING - LULLABY OF BIRDLAND - 1952 - SHEET MUSIC.pdf - 4shared.com - document sharing - download



Thanks

Stephen

[gersdal]

There are so many strange ways of notating chords, and I'm sure I've seen this earlier, but normally in situations where the b9 would be the natural choice. In this tune you're just comming from a F#m7b5 so E9 would be a natrual choice (allthough I think I normally play E7b9 here), so it is a little strange.

[calder9@in.com.au]

The chords in the first two bars of my sheet are Am--F#7b5--B7b9--E9. But I get what you're saying. Thanks.

[pingu]

|Am7 |D7 E7|

is quite nice there too , I prefere to say on the Am for 4 beats
so as not to pre -empt the (distictive)F# in the melody

or |Am7 | F7 E7| even

what ho

[calder9@in.com.au]

Thanks for the suggestions, pingu I'll try them.