This is the spirit in which this music was created and first interpreted by the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet. It can be real challenging to improvise over a chord progressions like this, but think of the unexpected twists and turns as “part of the fun,” like you’re on a musical roller coaster.
It’s kind of like “musical cubism.” Familiar yet different. This would normally lead to the V chord, G7, and while Shorter “throws us a bone” by going to a G chord, he makes it a minor 7th instead. After unexpectedly holding out the Ebm7 a measure “too long,” he repeats the C7/A7b9 again, this time finally going to a D (ii) chord but making it dominant instead. Then, he sets up a typical ii-V in the key of F minor (Gm7b5/C7), but the C7 turns out to be a reprise of the beginning, with the first 3 chords repeating here.
He sets up the Dm but goes up a half step, to Ebm, surprising us with this harmony. It’s like he’s playing a musical joke on us. But Wayne doesn’t give us this, does he? No, he throws in an unrelated chord, Ebm7 instead. This is a standard I-VI in the key of C major, right? What does your ear expect to hear next? Dm. Start by playing the first chord, C7, and then the next, A7(b9). To see this, let’s follow the sequence of chords, playing each one on the piano if you can while reading this. In “Orbits,” it almost seems as though Wayne Shorter went out of his way to set up harmonic expectations only to veer off in unexpected directions with the next chord. Musical ideas and jazz piano practice tips: (for international readers who may not have access to these YouTube links, I’ve indicated the original album names wherever possible so you can listen to them on music streaming services, etc.) Bt the chord changes are very challenging, and to make things even harder, the Miles Davis group took a “free yet rigorous” approach to improvising on this and other tunes in their repertoire at the time they recorded “Orbits.” They improvised on what Shorter called “the song’s DNA.” For more insight into this, check out the interview with Wayne Shorter that I’ve linked to below. Wayne Shorter is a melodic composer, and the melody to “Orbits” is catchy. The piece fits that group’s approach perfectly, and the high level of musical abstraction needed to play music like this seems to have discouraged most other jazz musicians from even attempting to play it. “Orbits” is a tune that Wayne Shorter wrote for the Miles Davis Quintet’s 1967 album, Miles Smiles, on which Shorter played tenor sax. Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.A Guide To Help You Play Better Jazz Piano As a school, McMullan said they’re aiming for 25,000 miles and 100,000 smiles, because each mile is four laps and you should be smiling at the end of all of them. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
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