Afternoon In Paris Jazz Backing Track - A great jazz standard for the improvisation student to change the tonal center.

"Afternoon In Paris" is a jazz theme composed by pianist John Lewis in 1949. This theme has the traditional AABA form with 32 measures, in the course of parts A and B the tonal center changes from C major to Bb major and Ab major, a very attractive harmony for the practice of improvisation.

Great artists have already interpreted this theme, names like Phineas Newborn, Benny Golson, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Chet Baker, Bud Powell, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Barron, Milt Jackson, Art Farmer, Cedar Walton, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Kenny Burrell , George Coleman, Roland Kirk, Stéphane Grappelli and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in "Real Book vol. 1" on page 10.

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

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