Things Ain’t What They Used To Be Backing Track Blues Jazz – Apply your improvisational knowledge to this famous blues from the 1940s.

“Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” is a jazz standard composed by Mercer Ellington in 1942. It is a 12-bar blues song commonly played in the key of Db.

This theme has been performed by great names in jazz, including Charlie Barnet, Duke Ellington, Ray Brown, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe, Gene Harris, Dave Grusin, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Stanley Turrentine and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.2” on page 365.

This backing track is composed of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is 130bpm.

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