‘Round Midnight Backing Track – A jam track for music students to solo over one of the most important jazz tunes.

‘Round Midnight is a slow song composed in 1944 by pianist Thelonious Monk. It is known for being the most recorded jazz standard by jazz musicians.

Among the most famous recordings of this tune, besides the numerous ones made by Monk himself, we can mention those by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer & Donald Byrd, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Michel Legrand, Mel Tormé, Gil Evans, Art Pepper, Wes Montgomery, Sun Ra, Grant Green, Milt Jackson, Art Farmer & Benny Golson, Barry Harris, Jimmy McGriff, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith, Baden Powell, Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Kenny Burrell, Art Pepper, Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Hubbard, Michel Petrucciani, Stanley Jordan, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Ahmad Jamal, Carmen McRae, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Lee Konitz, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andy Summers, Billy Cobham, Amy Winehouse, Keith Jarrett, and others.

The structure of this piece is AABA, and the rhythm is slow, which provides comfort to the improviser, as well as the II-V passages that are well known among jazz musicians.

It is important to note that this Backing Track follows the 1988 revision note of Real Book #1, which states that the chords in the sixth measure of part A should be |Gbmaj7 Ab7| and in the third measure of part B should be |Cm7b5 B7|.

The instruments that make up this backing track are: Drums, Bass, and Piano. The tempo is set at 65 BPM.

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Hope you enjoy it, happy practicing!