Fenja – Dexter Gordon

This elegant, mellow medium swinger is classic Dexter Gordon. The melody is very singable like many of Dexter's songs. Fenja's changes are based on the standard I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, though the form is an even 32 measures without a four-measure tag at the end. The bridge changes are also slightly different from I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, with Gm7♭5 to C7 in the third and fourth measures instead of Am7♭5-D7.

There is an eight-measure intro whose first four notes are a retrograde inversion of the beginning of the A section. This intro is also used as an ending, as shown in our lead sheet as a D.C. al fine after the out head.

Our lead sheets include the two-horn harmonies heard on the recording, which are mostly at the ends of melody phrases. The B♭ lead sheet is in the range where Dexter Gordon plays it on tenor sax. It could also work on trumpet an octave higher; however, on the recording trumpeter Woody Shaw takes the A and C sections down an octave, in unison with the tenor. We have a trumpet 1st part showing the melody in the register where Woody plays it. Our E♭ lead sheet is in the same octave for alto sax.