>>127034811 (OP)You realize that melody is just going up and down the blues scale? There are only so many melodies you can make with that, even you just noodling around, you will likely come up with a melody that has already been used for a song. Blues is severely limited in terms of what melodies you can make and Yoko Kanno was basically doing a crash course in Jazz before doing the soundtrack, it is entirely likely that she just happened to find this melody, didn't know about Midtown and just made her own arrangement utilizing the conventions she picked up. Also possible she might have heard Midtown but forgot about it, but instinctively gravitated towards this melody while trying to come up with material for Bebop's soundtrack.
Not to mention that there is plenty of original material in her arrangement. Literally what the fuck is the issue? That she happened to use a similar 5 note melody? People who cry about musical plagiarism are the most retarded faggots I swear. Not to mention that the genre she is "plagiarizing" was built on the back of arranging existing melodies and building on them through arrangements and improvisation.
