Gloria's Step Backing Track - Here you can improvise on this standard by Scott LaFaro, legendary bassist for Bill Evans Trio.

"Gloria's Step" is a jazz standard composed in the early 1960s by Scott LaFaro, this theme was recorded in 1961 on the fantastic live album "Sunday At The Village Vanguard" by Bill Evans Trio, which in addition to Evans and Lafaro was formed by drummer Paul Motion. LaFaro lost his life due to a car accident just 10 days after recording this album.

This theme has a form that at first may seem a little strange to the music student because it contains 20 measures, the first half of which is divided into two parts of 5 measures. But, with a good analysis of the form and the harmonic progression, it is possible to have a lot of fun with the possibilities that this song offers, mainly in its second part, which presents a sequence of tension chords, thus opening a range of melodic possibilities.

This theme was also performed by Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Gary Peacock, Joe Lovano, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, among others.

This jazz standard can be found in "Real Book vol.1" on page 172 and "The New Real Book vol.1" on page 118.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is 158bpm.

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