[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:slow-boat-to-china":3},"title: Slow Boat to China\naka: On a Slow Boat to China\nsubtitle: Medium (On a Slow Boat to China)\ncomposer: Frank Loesser\nstyle: Medium\nkey: Bb\nform: ABAD, 32 bars\nrecording: Sonny Rollins; Sonny Rollins Quartet; Prestige; 1952\nyoutube: DIgTNZcPVXs\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; Bb\n# recording: recorded 1951-12-17, Apex Studios, New York (Kenny Drew, Percy Heath, Art Blakey), first issued on the 10\" PRLP 137 (1952; no 78); later on Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (PRLP 7029, 1956); songbook standard → Rollins's reading as the jazz reference (jazzdisco); video: Sonny Rollins's official channel (Craft), Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet, the same take\n\n# bar | chord | scale\n# bar 2 can also be Bdim7\n\nsection: A1\n1 | BbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2 | Dm7b5     # iiø7 of C minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n2 | G7        # V7\u002Fii in Bb: the b13 is in the key\n3 | Cm7       # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n4 | Dbdim7    # vii°7 to BbMaj7\u002FD, up to its bass: A7♭9 without its root\n5 | BbMaj7\u002FD  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6 | Am7b5     # iiø7 of D7b9: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n6 | D7b9      # V7\u002Fvi in Bb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n7 | EbMaj7    # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n8 | Dm7b5     # iiø7 of C minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n8 | G7        # V7\u002Fii in Bb: the b13 is in the key\n\nsection: B\n1 | Cm7       # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n2 | Em7b5     # iiø7 of A7b9: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n2 | A7b9      # V7\u002Fiii in Bb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n3 | BbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n3 | Ab7#11    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to G7\n4 | G7        # extended dominant: V7 of C7\n5 | C7        # II7 in Bb, not resolving: natural tensions\n7 | Cm7       # ii of the ii–V to Bb\n8 | F9        # V7 of Bb: natural tensions\n\nsection: A2\ncopy: A1\n\nsection: D\nbars: 8\n1 | Cm7       # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n2 | Ab7#11    # back door bVII7 to BbMaj7: the #11 is in the key\n3 | BbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n4 | Dm7b5     # iiø7 of G7: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n4 | G7        # extended dominant: each one falls a fifth into the next: natural tensions\n5 | C7        # V7 of V7: the dominant of the dominant: natural tensions\n6 | F7        # V7 of Bb: natural tensions\n7 | BbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n",1793484803222]