Freddie Freeloader Backing Track – Improvise over this important Miles Davis composition from the album “Kind of Blue”.

“Freddie Freeloader” is a 12-bar blues song composed in 1959 by trumpeter Miles Davis. This composition has a change in the final bars in relation to the traditional blues, Miles replaced the expected Bb7 with Ab7, so this is a point that deserves the attention of the improviser.

In the original recording Miles recruited a group of notables:

Cannonball Adderley – Alto Saxophone
John Coltrane – Tenor Saxophone
Wynton Kelly – Piano
Paul Chambers – Bass
Jimmy Cobb – Drums

This song has been performed by other great instrumentalists such as Wes Montgomery, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Stanley Jordan, Monty Alexander, Mark Whitfield, Ray Brown and many others.

This backing track is composed of drums, bass and piano. The tempo is 130bpm.

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