Prelude to a Kiss Backing Track – Apply your musical knowledge to this beautiful jazz ballad by the great Duke Ellington.

“Prelude to a Kiss” is a 1938 song composed by pianist Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Gordon and Irving Mills. This is a very complex and sophisticated song for the time it was released, which did not make it a very popular song among the general public, but thanks to the great challenge it presents, it caught the attention of jazz musicians, being listed as a Standard in compendiums such as the “Real Book” and “The New Real Book”.

In this composition there is extensive use of chromaticisms, secondary II-V-I progressions, chords secondary dominants, evasive cadences, etc., in short, many learning opportunities, it is worth studying it!

This theme has already been performed by Stan Kenton, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Ellis Marsalis, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Joe Lovano, Brad Mehldau and many others.

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

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