CHEROKEE OVERVIEW

CHRIS POTTER: SOLO SAXOPHONE

Interesting recurring ideas:

Outlines/Bop lines
Melodic Minor lines and arpeggios
Arpeggios/Bop-like, Diatonic, Melodic Minor, Large/Open, Broken
Cyclical Quadruplet [CQ] Patterns
Voice-leadng/Using Guide Tones [GT] structurally
Rhythmic Development/Meter Changes/Metric
Superimposition/Iteration
Tritone Substitutions
Simple Blues Lines as Contrast
Some Side-Slipping
Quotes including “Irish Washerwoman Jig,” and “Jumpin’ with
Symphony Sid.”

FORM KEY CONTENT

TIME
HEAD Bb
A :00
A :16
B :31
A :45
1 Bb
A 1:00 Simple
Outline No. 3
Melodic Minor Arpeggios
Recurring Blues Line
Structural use of Guide Tones [GT] throughout entire improvisation: indicated
throughout with circled notes
A 1:15 Bop Outlines
Tritone Substitution (throughout using the simplest dominant chord a tritone
away from the primary dominant)
Arpeggios
Cyclical Quadruplet [CQ] Patterns
Outline No. 3
B 1:28 Outlines
Arpeggios
Cinquillo
A 1:41 Melodic Reference
Arpeggios
Melodic Minor CQs

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2 Bb
A 1:54 Arpeggios
Tritone Substitution
Melodic Minor
Cinquillo
A 2:08 Voice-Leading
Melodic Minor CQs

Quartal Arpeggio (same arpeggio used twice: once for C#m7 [m.161]; once for
Outlines
B 2:22
Amaj7 [m.724])
Outlines
Broken Arpeggios
A 2:35 Triads out of the key
Arpeggios & CQs
Triadic 1235 Patterns
3 B
A 2:48 Arpeggio
Voice-leading
Outlines
A 3:02 Arpeggios
Melodic Minor Arpeggios
B 3:15 GTs
Sequence
Arpeggios
A 3:28 Arpeggios
Side-Slip
Melodic Minor Arpeggios
Outline
4 C Change of meter to 6/8
A 3:42 Outline
Open Arpeggios
A 3:56 Broken Arpeggios
B 4:10 Outlines
A 4:24 Triad /1235 Patterns Sequenced

Db
Melodic Minor Arpeggios
5 Return to 4/4
A 4:38 Outline
Triadic
A 4:52 Melodic Minor
Arpeggios
Outline No. 3
B 5:06 Outlines
Triadic Generalization
A 5:20 Outlines
Tritone Substitution

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6 D
A 5:32 1235 Patterns
Arpeggios/Outlines
Melodic Minor
A 5:48 Arpeggios/Outlines
Melodic Minor
B 6:00 Outlines
A 6:12 Arpeggios/Outlines

Eb
Melodic Minor
7 Cadenza
A 6:28 Arpeggios following GTs
Melodic Minor
A 6:48 Melodic Minor
Open Arpeggios
Iteration
Diatonic Arpeggios
B 7:04 Outlines
Iteration
A 7:22 Open Arpeggios
Melodic Minor
8 E Return to 4/4
A 7:40 Outlines
Arpeggios
“Honeysuckle Rose” Quote
A 7:56 CQs
Melodic Minor
Outline
Rhythm Sequence/Arpeggio
B 8:13 Rhythm Sequence/Arpeggio
Outlines
A 8:30 Iteration/Arpeggios
Tritone Substitution
Outlines
9 F Change of meter to 6/8
A 8:48 Arpeggios follow GTs
Melodic Minor
Side-slip Arpeggios
Outlines
A 9:02 Quote: “Irish Washerwoman Jig”
Melodic Minor
Rhythmic Groupings of 2 against the 3
Return to 4/4
Outline No. 3
B 9:16 Stop & Go Sequence
Arpeggios: Close & Open

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 A 9:30 Open Arpeggios
10 F#
A 9:43 Static Pedal contrast with GTs
Arpeggios/Voice-leading
Melodic Minor
A 9:57 Open Arpeggios
Tritone Subsitution
Outline No. 1
Arpeggios
B 10:10 Outlines
Arpeggios
Melodic Minor
A 10:24 Melodic Minor
Arpeggios
Voice-leading
Outlines
11 G
A 10:38 Arpeggios follow GTs
Flurries begin
A 10:52 Stop & Go contrast with flurries
“Honeysuckle Rose”
Outlines
B 11:06 Parker-like Outline
Rhythmic motive developed
A 11:19 1235 Sequence
Arpeggios

Skips Ab & A major, modulates directly back to Bb

Outline

12 Bb
A 11:32 Triadic Bluesy Figure sets up the “Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid” quote
“Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid”
Melodic Minor
Outlines
A 11:45 Rhythmic motive developed: Groupings of 5 notes, often Pentatonic based
B 11:58 Rhythmic motive developed: Groupings of 6 notes
Extreme Range Flurries with occasional Stop & Go idea
Outline No. 2 takes it back to the Melody
A 12:12 Last A Section: Melody returns very simply stated
Cinquillo related Rhythmic idea

b
Subito Half-time sets up:
CODA B Ending figure like Clifford Brown recording & “Bird Gets the Worm”
Last descending arpeggio created using Root & 7th of E7 and Root & 7th of Bb
Extreme Range

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