Fabio Complex – Grant Stewart

A minor-key medium swinger with a bouncy hard-bop sound. The AABC form has 12-measure A and C sections and a 10-measure bridge. In the seventh and ninth measures of A and C, piano and bass unison lines fill in around the melody followed by breaks for the next melody phrase. These lines are shown in our C treble and bass clef lead sheets.
Though the melody makes the F minor key center obvious—staying in a pentatonic scale for most of the A section—the changes travel to a few different tonalities. In the A section these include G♭ and B major, which results in an unusual chord quality on the 9th measure: Bmaj7♭5(♭9), due to a C♮ in the melody. The bridge has a stepwise descending cycle of major chords, followed by further descending II-V7s.

Though the two A sections are almost the same, they are written out separately in our lead sheet because the first note of the second A, which is the last note of the preceding melody phrase, is an octave higher than the first note of the first A. The same melody phrase extends into a note on the downbeat of the first solo chorus, which we show as a partial measure to complete the phrase; at the end of the out head, it's held out as a whole note.