Dear Old Stockholm chords

[asafasadi]

Hello everyone,
does anyone know if there is an accurate transcription of the miles davis version on Round midnight? Thanks in advance.

[grahambop]

This one from the ‘500 tunes the realbook missed’ fakebook looks reasonably accurate to me.

[asafasadi]

mmm it is a Dmin7b13 on the vamp. you know the sort of scores I am talkin about. i transcribed PC still doesn't make sense to me-

[grahambop]

I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve, your thread title suggests you just want the chords, but now you seem to be saying you want a full score transcription of the recording? I don’t know of one.

Functionally (to me) the intro vamp is basically a Dm chord and a Dmb6 chord, if I’m thinking in terms of how to improvise over it.

As I recall, Paul Chambers plays some kind of pedal A bass figure under Red Garland’s piano chords during the intro, so you could put an A in the bass if you want to capture more of the flavour of the recording.

[grahambop]

Ok I see that the second bar of that chart should of course specify ‘flat 6’ rather than ‘-6’, I don’t much like that ‘minus sign’ useage, but I picked this chart because overall it gets the structure better than the other ones I’ve got.

There’s a Bb in the key signature on the chart so maybe that was meant to cover it.

[asafasadi]

It's difficult to get the right colors harmonically, I wanted something a little bit more precise compared to a fake book, thanks anyway grahmbop, really.

[grahambop]

Well it's a rainy afternoon here so I had a go at transcribing the bass and piano part in the first 4 bars. I'm not 100% sure about that A next to the Bb in the middle of Red Garland's chords, but it sounds like there's a 'rub' there which suggests it, anyway I like it! (I did slow it down in Audacity and tried all sorts of things to check it e.g. the spectrum analyzer but couldn't be certain).

[ragman1]

Graham, sounds good, but does he play a pick-up note in bars 2 and 4? I may be wrong.

[grahambop]

Interesting to hear what it sounded like before the jazzers got their hands on it!

Dear Old Stockholm - Wikipedia

[grahambop]

Graham, sounds good, but does he play a pick-up note in bars 2 and 4? I may be wrong.

yes I thought I heard a bass accent there but was in a bit of a hurry, decided not to worry about it too much. Really just trying to get the harmonies more than anything.

[ragman1]

There's a sound clip from 1916 on the Wiki page :-)

[grahambop]

Stan Getz did the first jazz version I believe (unless some Swedish jazzers did it before him, which is quite possible).

[ragman1]

It's a nice tune. I can see myself going round checking out different versions now!

[asafasadi]

here there are,
pedal Dmin section without much info
I transcribed the original and the first fakesheet was right

[grahambop]

Yes I thought it was, before posting it I had listened to the recording while looking through it.

By the way, my transcription in post no. 7 has the intro vamp voicings if you need them.