[Trombone-l] Chords

[Bill Dinwiddie]

Adrian & Wayne,

George Carr tipped me off to this website Sheetmusicplus, and it says the 
chord is Cb7 (B7). I do not know if the sheet music sold here is the real 
deal, or if it was put together by someone who was looking at a fake book.

If anyone finds a copy of the original sheet music for "Lush Life" in their 
great aunt's piano bench, please let me know what the second chord of the 
verse is. The stock key seems to be Db and the second chord is either a Cb7 
or a CbMaj7.

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_inside.html?cart=335582829627722434&item=3594925&page=01

Sheetmusic plus does say "Copyrighted Material" at the top of the sheet and 
at the bottom, "Copyright 1949 by Tempo Music, Inc./Music Sales 
Corporation(ASCAP)", so maybe this is the official version. The font at the 
bottom is very small, but I think I read it correctly.

Cheers,
Bill Dinwiddie

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Like you Bill, I have it in three different fake books, two which have Cb7
(or B7) and Cbmaj7 in the other.  I also have it in a book of Strayhorn
music which has a 1949 copyright notice and also uses B7, tho' this looks
like a modern computer setting so I cannot be sure how faithful it is to the
original manuscript.  This song must hold the world record for length of its
verse.

A.


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The Real Book is notorious for having bad chord progressions.

I don't know if the publishers of the legal version got it right when
they released theirs, or if they just gave the world a legal version of
the wrong progressions.  Might be fun to look into that.

WD