Scrapple from the Apple DRUM AND BASS Backing Track – Here the improviser can practice his bebop phrasing on this theme by Charlie Parker.

“Scrapple from the Apple” is a bebop theme composed in 1947 by the legendary saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, the great master of BeBop, a style that revolutionized American music in the post-war period and drastically changed the way jazz was played and appreciated.

This song has the chord progression of “Honeysuckle Rose” in its opening part and the bridge is based on rhythm changes.

This song has been covered by Lenny Breau, Tal Farlow, Mundell Lowe, Miles Davis, Curtis Fuller, Dexter Gordon, Blue Mitchell, Jim Hall, Kenny Barron, Keith Jarrett, Frank Morgan, Gerry Mulligan, Bud Powell, Tommy Flanagan, Stan Getz, Oscar Pettiford, Red Mitchell, Red Rodney, Larry Schneider, Sonny Stitt, Oscar Peterson, Phil Woods, Red Garland, Lee Konitz and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 369 and in the “Charlie Parker Omnibook” on page 16.

This backing track is composed by drums and bass. The tempo is 200bpm.

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