Stompin’ at the Savoy Backing Track Jazz – This is a jam track for the instrumentalist to study this great hit by the Benny Goodman Orchestra.

“Stompin’ at the Savoy” is a jazz standard composed in 1933 by saxophonist Edgar Sampson, this theme is also often credited to Benny Goodman and Chick Webb. The name of this song pays homage to the “Salvoy Ballroom”, a legendary nightclub in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York.

This musical piece has the traditional AABA form of 32 measures in a medium swing rhythm. Soon after its release by Goodman’s orchestra, it was recognized as a jazz standard, being performed by great artists such as Charlie Christian, Jimmy Dorsey, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Louis Armstrong, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Bruno, Henri Salvador, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Art Pepper, Biréli Lagrène, Sylvain Luc, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D’Rivera, Red Garland and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 411 and in “The New Real Book vol.3” on page 359.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass, piano and guitar. The tempo is 150bpm.

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