Invitation Backing Track Jazz – Here the instrumentalist can apply his improvisation knowledge to this beautiful jazz standard.

“Invitation” is a song composed in 1950 by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. It was part of the soundtrack of the film “A Life of Her Own” (1950) directed by George Cukor and “Invitation” (1952) directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, after the latter film the song began to be adopted as a jazz standard.

Among the various interpretations of this theme made by various artists we can highlight those of Les Brown, George Wallington, John Young, Cal Tjader, Dakota Staton, John Coltrane, Buddy Collette, Carmen McRae, Roy Hargrove, Chris Connor, Johnny “Hammond” Smith, Art Blakey, Dinah Washington, Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Bryant, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell, Roy Haynes, Lucky Thompson, Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, Archie Shepp, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett, Charles McPherson, Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, Walter Bishop Jr., Jaco Pastorius, Buddy DeFranco, Dave McKenna and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 234, in the “Real Book vol.6” on page 217 and in “The New Real Book vol.3” on page 179.

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

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