Old Folks Backing Track Jazz Ballad – Here the instrumentalist can apply his improvisation knowledge to this beautiful song.

“Old Folks” is a jazz standard composed in 1938 by pianist Willard Robison and Dedette Lee Hill. This jazz ballad has the AABA form with 32 measures.

This song has been recorded and performed by great jazz artists, including Larry Clinton, Bea Wain, Mildred Bailey, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Miles Davis, Ernestine Anderson, Oscar Peterson, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Dorham, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean, Red Mitchell, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.3” on page 218.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is 70bpm.

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