Cherokee Backing Track Fast Swing Jazz - Apply your improvisational knowledge to this fantastic late 1930s theme.

"Cherokee" is a jazz standard composed in 1938 by Briton Ray Noble. It is the first of five moves in his "Indian Suite": Cherokee, Comanche War Dance, Iroquois, Seminole and Sioux Sue.

This theme has been performed by great instrumentalists among which we can mention Charlie Barnet, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, Don Byas, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Harry James, Christian McBride, Tal Farlow, Chet Atkins, Kamasi Washington, Johnny Smith, Wynton Marsalis, Scott Hamilton, Sonny Stitt, Richie Cole, Biréli Lagrene, Freddie Hubbard, Max Roach and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in "Real Book vol.1" on page 78 and in "The New Real Book vol.2" on page 47.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 250bpm.

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