Cry Me A River Backing Track Jazz Ballad - Apply your knowledge of this beautiful song from the 1950s with this Backing Track.

"Cry Me A River" is a jazz ballad composed in 1953 by Arthur Hamilton. It was originally written to be sung by Ella Fitzgerald, but the song was cut from production and Fitzgerald's recording only happened in 1961. So the first version of the song is that of Julie London recorded in 1955 for the film "The Girl Can 't Help It "(1956).

Many other instrumentalists and singers have performed this song, including Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Tony Mottola, Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, Michael Bublé, Caetano Veloso, Ray Brown, Joe Cocker, Barbra Streisand, Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Sam Cooke and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the "Real Book vol.3" on page 58 and in the "Hal-Leonard Real Jazz Standards Fake Book" on page 86.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 65bpm.

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