I am new, compliments to the whole community.
I would like to analyze Silk 'n Satin but I am not able to; it is the only ballad on the album and is part of a 1954 session: Monk's presence advertised on the cover is actually limited to a single track, More Than You Know, where the pianist/composer is accompanied by Tommy Potter (b) and Art Taylor (d).
The track in question is credited to Rollins and consists of an excellent improvisation over a progression, but it seems to me to have an unusual 16-bar structure instead of the usual 32, and I seem to hear also some surprising harmonic variations that I cannot yet define.
In reality, it seems that the track is a "standard" based on one of the countless songs known to Rollins, which was performed by the chanteuse Hildegarde, the Lady of 'Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup'...
All comments and analyses will be useful, whether they succeed in creating a valid method of analysis or reveal the specific construction of this interpretation.
Thank you in advance.
# Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
# Kenny Dorham – trumpet
# Elmo Hope – piano
# Percy Heath – bass
# Art Blakey – drums
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on August 18, 1954
