The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166192   Message #3994340
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
28-May-19 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: Help - chord name? / chord naming
Subject: RE: Help - chord name? / chord naming
It hits my ear as an implied first inversion of a B7 chord, with the tension 9 replacing the B (they're often substituted for the root). But it's hard to type out on here with no superscript numerals, and inversions get written in different ways depending on the idiom anyway (figured bass really doesn't help in this case, just turns everything into alphabet soup - they didn't really go in for jazz harmonies).

As has been mentioned, it's also a minor seven flat five, but the dominant-seventh inversion is the thing I naturally hear.