Caravan Backing Track Latin Jazz – With this jam track, you can apply your knowledge to this influential jazz theme by Duke Ellington.

“Caravan” is a jazz standard composed in 1936 by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol. It is a widely performed theme among jazz musicians, both in small ensembles and Big Bands. In cinema, this theme was part of the films “Alice” (1990) and “Sweet and Lowdown” (1999), both by Woody Allen, “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001), and was the main theme of “Whiplash” (2014).

A large number of instrumentalists have interpreted this theme, including Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Jo Jones, Gene Krupa, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Peterson, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Art Pepper, Milt Jackson, Monty Alexander, Wynton Marsalis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Petrucciani, Chucho Valdés, Brian Setzer, and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol. 2” on page 53 and in “The New Real Book vol. 3” on page 73.

This backing track consists of drums, electric bass, and electric piano. The tempo is set at 120bpm.

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