Polka Dots and Moonbeams DRUM AND BASS Backing Track Jazz Ballad – Here the instrumentalist can improvise on this important jazz song from 1940.

“Polka Dots and Moonbeams” is a 1940 jazz standard composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It has the traditional AABA form with 32 measures, quite common for compositions of that time.

This song has been performed by Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Paul Desmond, Blue Mitchell, Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan, Lou Donaldson, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Byrd, Joe Pass, Nat King Cole, Cassandra Wilson, John Denver, Bob Dylan and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.2” on page 297 and in “The New Real Book vol.1” on page 273.

This backing track is composed of drums and bass. The tempo is 65bpm.

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