Riverside – John Webber

Like many of John Webber's songs, this one has a classic hard-bop sound. The A and C sections of this 32-measure AABC form feature a dialogue between two-note melody phrases and single rhythm section stop-time figures. The melody rises here, and then descends through the last three measures of these sections in a bebop-ish fashion. The bridge, which goes to 4-feel in the rhythm section, is also more bebop-ish. The changes are essentially cyclical: the eight-measure phrases have no resolutions at the end but instead modulate back to the beginning of the next section. They're relatively diatonic, with some half-step approach and tritone substitute II-V7 motion.

The bridge starts in A♭. The eighth measure of the C section has F in the melody harmonized with E♭7, which is extended for four measures with a drum solo fill before the solos—though the solo form has only one measure of E♭7 at the end. There is a coda that holds the E♭7 for two measures and continues holding two-measure chords descending in half steps to C, finally resolving to F.