Midnight Blue begat Moon Dance?

[medjuck]

I've never heard Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue before (believe it or not) but when it came on the radio this morning I thought I was hearing the intro to Van Morrison 's Moondance!   Some of the changes seem the same too.  Midnight Blue was released a couple of years before Moondance and since Van has always been a jazz fan I presume that he (unlike me) had heard it.  Seems to me that Kenny has as much of a claim as Horace Silver has against Steely Dan. 

[Milestones]

Interesting thought.  I know both pieces well and never made that connection, but even without listening now I can hear some pretty serious similarities.  But I don't think it's quite the thievery that Steely Dan did of "Song for my Father." 

 

[Teasing the Korean]

On 1/12/2022 at 11:50 PM, medjuck said:

I've never heard Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue before (believe it or not) but when it came on the radio this morning I thought I was hearing the intro to Van Morrison 's Moondance!   Some of the changes seem the same too.  Midnight Blue was released a couple of years before Moondance and since Van has always been a jazz fan I presume that he (unlike me) had heard it.  Seems to me that Kenny has as much of a claim as Horace Silver has against Steely Dan. 

Not only the intro, but the melodies leading into the bridges of both tunes are similar.

[JSngry]

Children of "Milestone", all.