Miles' "Teo" (from Someday My Prince Will Come)

[Rosco]

Am putting together an arrangement of the tune 'Teo' as played on Miles Davis' album Someday My Prince Will Come. The piece has four different sections, that each outline a mode. I'm pretty happy with everything I've notated, except I'm having some trouble pinning down the first mode being used.

It's an F minor-type, and I assumed it to be the Dorian (second mode of Eb). Coltrane's solo seems to be outlining the Dorian (with an Eb in the scale). However, I'm sure I occasionally hear Wynton Kelly playing an E in the chord, suggesting an F min/maj7 and an ascending melodic minor scale. Is this part of the structure or an alteration that Kelly is making on the fly? I've been listening to it for so long now I don't know what I'm hearing anymore!

Have never seen any transcriptions of this tune and a reasonably thorough Googling brings up nothing helpful. Anyone have a definitive answer?

[Teasing the Korean]

I don't have an answer to your question, but:

If it's your arrangement, why not go with what you like? It's not at all unusual for an arranger to incorporate improvisational elements from a famous earlier recording of a tune (s)he's arranging.

[Chuck Nessa]

Maybe Wynton's lost.

[Teasing the Korean]

Maybe Wynton's lost.

Maybe, but if it works in the context of the tune, it doesn't matter. If it sounds good, it's worth incorporating into the arrangement.