8 Tone scale for that strange chord in Take The A-Train

You must Take the A Train…if you want to improvise over a standard. But this standard tune has a non-standard chord in Bars 3 and 4. If you are playing the “Real Book” version in C, the song starts with two measures of C Major 7, and then goes up a whole step to D. If we stayed in the Key of C, this would be a Dminor chord. Billy Strayhorn was much more creative than that, and he put in a chord rarely seen anywhere else: D7 b5.

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Using mod_auth_gssapi via Podman

Kerberos is a cryptographically secure authentication mechanism in use in many large organizations. Developers may want to make their applications work with Kerberos while developing inside containers. Here is a quick proof-of-concept that shows how to set up a container to work with mod_auth_gssapi., the Apache module that makes use of Kerberos.

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