Boplicity Backing Track Jazz Bebop – Play the theme and improvise over the harmony of this famous jazz standard by Miles Davis.

Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) is a jazz theme composed in 1957 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans for the album Birth of the Cool. It has 32 bars in AABA form in the key of F Major. Pay attention to the Fmaj7 chords that appear in the last bar of each “A” section; the melody features the note B, indicating that this is a chord with a #11, so when improvising, it is interesting to use the Lydian mode of the major scale.

This song can be considered a jazz standard and has been interpreted by great instrumentalists, including Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dave Liebman, Shawn Graham, and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol. 1” on page 60 and in the “Real Book vol. 6” on page 58.

This backing track consists of drums, bass, and piano. The tempo is set at 135bpm.

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