Sophisticated Lady DRUMS AND BASS Backing Track Jazz – A backing track with just drums and bass of yet another important standard.

“Sophisticated Lady” is a jazz song composed in 1932 by Duke Ellington. The lyrics are by Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish.

This song has been wonderfully interpreted by renowned singers and instrumentalists such as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Chick Corea, Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Kenny Burrell, Django Reinhardt, Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Toots Thielemans, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius, Christian McBride and many others.

This Jazz Standard has the 32-bar AABA format, which was quite common at the time it was created. Regarding the harmony, we can say that, just like the name of this song, it has a very sophisticated harmonic structure. With enough effort, the student will be able to improvise quite fluidly on this song.

This theme can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 397 and in “The New Real Book vol.2” on page 337.

This backing track is composed of drums and double bass. The tempo is 85bpm.

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