My Funny Valentine
i'm writing an assignement about keith jarret at school, and besides describing his style and approach to standard tunes, i also have to analyse a couple of the songs. right now i'm analyzing "my funny valentine", and there is one chord that bugs me. in bar 15 and 16, the chords are abmin6 to bb7. how do you explain the abmin6? if it was major instead of minor, it could have been explained as subdominant to dominant to tonic (iv-v-i), but now?... hope you understand my question. any help is apreciated (sp?)...
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ab-6 is iv minor borrowed from eb melodic minor.
bar 15, 16 and 17 in my real book are:
| f-7 b5 | bb7 | eb f-7 |etc
it's a ii v i modulation into eb which is the relative major of c-
the notes of the ab-6 chord are the same notes in a rootless g7 b9 b13
ab-6 is spelled ab, cb, eb, f
ab is the b9 of g7
cb is the 3rd of g7
eb is the b13 of g7
f is the 7th of g7
therefore
| f -7 b5 | bb7 b9 |
is interchangeable with
| ab-6 | bb7 b9 |
....are you prof. luke gillespie?
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