hi all,

just listening to kenny barrons rubato intro of but beautiful on frank morgan's album. i am trying to figure out what exact progression he plays in the second bar. it's something with a ii v, but i want to know exactly which colours he plays. it sounds to me this is pretty standard stuff as you hear this trick quite often, but can somebody explain it to me?
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if you play it in g would the second bar be

1        2                       3    4
bmin7b5  bmin7b5 (an inversion)  e7   (e7 an inversion)

or am i completely of, plz help cause it's frustrating :)
i don’t know if this will help ‘cos i am not sure which chords are in which bars in your post.  however, in my lead sheet, starting at bar 1, it is as follows:

| = bar line division
//  chord division

g6 | b-7b5  // b-7b5 // b-7b5  // e7b9 | a-7 | c#-7b5 // f#7b9 |

however, in my ‘chords that i came across’ from ??? told to me as french chords

the first four bars, imho, sound much sweeter and are as follows:
(in fact a few of the chord progressions in the whole number provide a nice change - i would describe them as chromatic run facilitating - what a mouthful!)

g7m| g#o | am7| a#o

if i got the bar/chord lines the wrong way round please let me know. kai
oh ok.. i have the lead sheet of the tune. but i am just wondering which inversions kennu barron plays in the second bar, right at the beginning. it's some kind of standard inversion progression which you hear often over a ii v, en i am wondering what it is
ayolt - don't know the barron recording you refer to, but a trick often used for the first bars of this song is something like this:

gmaj9 for the first two beats
c13 #11 for next beat
c#9 #11 next half-beat
c9 #11 half-beat (end of measure)
b9 #11 two beats
bb9 two beats (end of measure)
ami9 etc...

and so on.

if this makes no sense, i'll try to find time upload a midi to show what i mean.

sid
thx sid, it would be great if you could also post the midi file, that would help a lot!
oh yeah the recording i refer to is, frank morgan - you must believe in spring, 1st track
kenny barron's version is in in eb.

i am looking at my chart i made from it and i see the first two bars are:

| eb maj 7  |   g-7b5  c7  |

later on he plays the same two bars as:  

| eb maj7  |  g7 db7 c7 gb7 |  


i would have to put the cd on to get his exact voicings for you...
correction i leftout the ab maj7 he plays


|| ebmaj7 abmaj7  |  g-7b5  c7  |

or

|| ebmaj7 abmaj7  | g7 db7 c7 gb7 |
thx jazz+, but how does he voice the chords, cause i don't get that smooth feeling. you know where the transition between the chords is so logically beautiful :).
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