The Making of... Blues for Alice 

You're really good at this. Thank you for your service to the music community.

Listening to this song on Sax made me fall in love with Jazz. That was 25 years ago. Thanks for this video!

So interesting to hear some classical views on a jazz piece - that's pretty special. Thank you!

This is awesome, thank you for the analysis Marc!

Thanks for the analysis Mark. Some great ideas to use in my own compositions.

Ah ah ah! You do the same thing I do when I go over some harmonic analisys... you sing what you spell, and not just the notes, but their quality too. Like "Minor thiiirrd..."! I do that too! 😅

Charlie Parker composed and first recorded it in 1951. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_for_Alice

Hi Marc! Great way to spend part of my Sunday afternoon! For me, at least-I'm a little geeky that way :) A couple of comments/questions: 1)Is there a way to notate "ghost" notes in MuseScore, maybe enclosing noteheads in parenthesis? That might make it a little easier to follow when you're talking about the ghost notes in m. 5 and 10. 2) The in m.8 should have an accidental next to it if you're going to spell it B-natural. Makes more sense to spell it as a Cb, I think. 3) Loved your explanation of the chain of tritone subs leading up to m.9! Great stuff-very enlightening!

Marc, @21:30, in measure 2, you point out that the melody is a b9. I know that it is common to simply write the chord as an A7, but, if you were actually playing the piano with a sax player on melody, would you also play the b9? I play jazz guitar and I'm often puzzled as to why a jazz guitarist will call it an A7 but actually play the Ab9. If I wanted to play a solo guitar version [chord melody] I would obviously want to play the A7b9. How do you deal with the chord variations when comping on piano? thanks, Mark