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Can anyone ID this Ornette blues head for me? I think it's on one of the records with Dewey, but a quick check of the Blue Note records on Amazon didn't turn it up, so maybe it's on a post-BN album?

I may not have the correct key, but here's what I'm hearing in my head. Absent any access to notation software I tried to space out the notes according to where I'm hearing them. Closer together are eighth notes, farther apart are quarter notes (edit: on my screen at least this isn't working - the board appears to be disregarding extra spaces between letters):

G F D B G D | F G Bb B | G F D B G D | F G Bb B |

second phrase is similar, except it first outlines C7 instead of G7:

G E C Bb G C | E G A Bb | G F D B G D | F G Bb B |

third phrase is completely different:

(quarter note rest) D D F A G | (quarter note rest) G G Bb D1 C1 |

Edited by Big Wheel
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Looks like "Feet Music" to me..........one version (with Cherry, Haden and Higgins) is on In All Languages (Verve - Harmolodic) - the form of the head has first and second endings......hope this helps - Best, FK

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"Feet Music" it is...thanks Frank! Sounds like Ornette is playing tenor on the track, maybe that's why I thought Dewey was on the record.

In case anyone cares why I wanted to know about this tune, a DJ who used to have a late-night avant show in Miami (Steve Malagodi) used this as his theme song during the breaks. Hadn't heard the tune in years.

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