One of a half-dozen pieces commemorating Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. A passage amounts to 7 beats, in eight 7-beat phrases.  Expressed by the bass, the phrases are grouped 3 + 2 + 3.

KOZMIK IGOR KLOUDS

The famous Beatles who returned to India! Instead of major and minor, it's ragas Todi and Ahir Bhairav. Instead of a waltz, it's like the 10-beat Jhaptal. Hear the entire album at Bandcamp, under Tom Ross: "Norwegian Bollywood."

NORWEGIAN BOLLYWOOD

GOOD DAY SUNSHINE Mix

Jazz: once the nation's dance music, now its art music. Flexible because demanding; always exploring.

These are all famous bop tunes, or families of them. Parker and others based their melodies on earlier chord progressions, acknowledged or not. Also, there are one-of-a-kinds such as "Con Alma."

A given if playing these chestnuts is that something, or many things, had better be fresh. As an example from this album,  casting "Sweet Scrapple" in minor puts it in a small family of tunes whose harmonies start in suspense (a V chord) and end darkly (a minor I chord). This shows new kinships between "Sweet Sue," "Scrapple from the Apple," and "Hernando's Hideaway."

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