[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:a-sleepin-bee":3},"title: A Sleepin' Bee\ncomposer: Harold Arlen\nstyle: Medium swing\nkey: Ab\nform: AB, 36 bars\nrecording: Bill Evans; Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival; Verve; 1968\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; Ab\n# recording: recorded live 1968-06-15 at Montreux, Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Jack DeJohnette, the album's opener; chart follows no named version; songbook standard: the trio reading jazz players know best (1969 Grammy, Best Jazz Instrumental Album), over the House of Flowers cast (Diahann Carroll, 1954); Evans first recorded it on At Shelly's Manne-Hole (Riverside, 1963); sources: Wikipedia\n# book: Med. Swing\n\n# bar | chord\n\nsection: A\n1  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n1  | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 resolving down a fifth: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n2  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2  | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 resolving down a fifth: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n3  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n3  | D9#11    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to DbMaj7\n4  | DbMaj7   # the D9#11 before it makes Db the key of the moment: the 4th is in the key\n4  | Gb13sus  # static sus: Mixolydian\n5  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n5  | Db7      # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C7\n6  | C7       # V7 of F7b9, on the way to Bb minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n6  | F7b9     # V7 of Bb minor, the chain's last link: b9 and b13 are in the key\n7  | Bbm7     # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n7  | E9#11    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to Eb9\n8  | Eb9      # V7 in Ab, not resolving: natural tensions\n8  | Db9      # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C13\n9  | C13     |  | V7\u002Fvi  # * V7\u002Fvi in Ab: the b9 is in the key, the 13 from the symbol\n9  | C7b9#5   # V7 of F7b9, on the way to Bb minor: b9 and b13 are in the key, the #11 from the symbol\n10 | F7b9    |  | V7\u002Fii  # * V7 of Bb minor, the chain's last link: b9 and b13 are in the key\n10 | F7b9#5   # extended dominant: V7 of Bb13; b9, #11 and b13 from the symbol\n11 | Bb13    |  | V7\u002FV   # * V7\u002FV in Ab: natural tensions\n11 | Bb9#5    # V7 of V7: the dominant of the dominant: #11 and b13 from the symbol\n12 | Eb13    |  | V7     # * V7 of Ab: natural tensions\n12 | Eb13b9   # extended dominant: V7 of Ab13; b9 from the symbol\n13 | Ab13    |  | V7\u002FIV  # * V7\u002FIV in Ab: natural tensions\n13 | Ab9#5    # extended dominant: V7 of Db7; #11 and b13 from the symbol\n14 | Db7      # IV7 in Ab, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n# alt: bar 14 (Dbm7 Gb13) for Db7\n15 | Bbm7     # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n15 | Cm7      # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n15 | Db6      # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n15 | Ddim7    # passing diminished: Bb7♭9 without its Bb, the Eb9sus4's dominant; not functioning diatonically: the symmetric scale\n# alt: bar 15 (Db6) for Db6 Ddim7\n16 | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 before its dominant: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n# alt: bar 16 (E9) for Eb9sus4\n16 | Eb9      # V7 of Ab: natural tensions\n\nsection: B\nbars: 20\n1  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n1  | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 resolving down a fifth: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n2  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2  | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 resolving down a fifth: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n3  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n3  | D9#11    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to DbMaj7\n4  | DbMaj7   # the D9#11 before it makes Db the key of the moment: the 4th is in the key\n4  | Gb13sus  # static sus: Mixolydian\n5  | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n5  | Db7      # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C7\n6  | C7       # V7 of F7b9, on the way to Bb minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n6  | F7b9     # V7 of Bb minor, the chain's last link: b9 and b13 are in the key\n7  | Bbm7     # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n7  | E9#11    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to Eb9\n8  | Eb9      # V7 in Ab, not resolving: natural tensions\n8  | Db9      # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C13\n9  | C13     |  | V7\u002Fvi  # * V7\u002Fvi in Ab: the b9 is in the key, the 13 from the symbol\n9  | C7b9#5   # V7 of F7b9, on the way to Bb minor: b9 and b13 are in the key, the #11 from the symbol\n10 | F7b9    |  | V7\u002Fii  # * V7 of Bb minor, the chain's last link: b9 and b13 are in the key\n10 | F7b9#5   # extended dominant: V7 of Bb13; b9, #11 and b13 from the symbol\n11 | Bb13    |  | V7\u002FV   # * V7\u002FV in Ab: natural tensions\n11 | Bb9#5    # extended dominant: V7 of Eb9sus4; #11 and b13 from the symbol\n12 | Eb9sus4  # V7sus4 before its dominant: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n12 | Eb7b9    # V7 of Ab: the b9 from the symbol\n13 | AbMaj7   # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n13 | DbMaj7   # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n14 | C7       # extended dominant: each one falls a fifth into the next: natural tensions\n14 | F7       # extended dominant: each one falls a fifth into the next: natural tensions\n15 | Bb9      # V7 of V7: the dominant of the dominant: natural tensions\n15 | Eb13     # V7 in Ab, not resolving: natural tensions\n16 | C7       # extended dominant: V7 of F7b9\n16 | F7b9     # extended dominant: V7 of Bb9; b9 from the symbol\n17 | Bb9     |  | V7\u002FV   # * V7\u002FV in Ab: natural tensions\n17 | Bb9#5    # extended dominant: V7 of Eb13sus; #11 and b13 from the symbol\n18 | Eb13sus  # V7sus4 before its dominant: Mixolydian, the 4th is a chord tone here\n18 | Eb13     # V7 of Ab: natural tensions\n19 | Ab6      # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n# alt: bars 19–20 (Ab6 BMaj7 | EMaj7 AMaj7): BMaj7 on beat 3 of bar 19\n",1793484797255]