Prelude to a Kiss Backing Track - Apply your musical knowledge about this beautiful jazz ballad of the great Duke Ellington.

"Prelude to a Kiss" is a 1938 song composed by pianist Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Gordon and Irving Mills. This is a very complex and sophisticated song for the time it was released, it did not make it a very popular song with the general public, but thanks to the great challenge it presents, it drew the attention of jazz musicians, being listed as a Standard in compendiums like "Real Book" and "The New Real Book".

In this composition there is wide use of chromatisms, secondary II-V-I progressions, secondary dominant chords, evasive cadences etc., in short, many learning opportunities, it is worth studying it!

This theme has already been performed by Stan Kenton, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Ellis Marsalis, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Joe Lovano, Brad Mehldau and many others.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 70bpm.

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I hope you like it, good studies!