Footprints
Context
Composition by Wayne Shorter, first recorded on his album Adam's Apple (Blue Note, session of February 24, 1966), before the version by Miles Davis's quintet on Miles Smiles, which was released earlier and was the theme's first commercial release. It is a twelve-bar minor blues in C, disguised by a ternary meter alternating between duple and triple, with an unusual turnaround.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Modal, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.