'Round Midnight Backing Track - A jam track for music students to focus on what is one of the most important themes in jazz.

'Round Midnight is a slow song composed in 1944 by pianist Thelonius Monk, and is known for being the most recorded jazz standard by jazz musicians.

Among the most famous recordings on this theme, in addition to the many made by Monk himself, we can mention those made by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer & Donald Byrd, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Michel Legrand, Mel Tormé, Gil Evans, Art Pepper, Wes Montgomery, Sun Ra, Grant Green, Milt Jackson, Art Farmer & Benny Golson, Barry Harris, Jimmy McGriff, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith, Baden Powell, Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Kenny Burrell, Art Pepper, Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Hubbard, Michel Petrucciani, Stanley Jordan, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Ahmad Jamal, Carmen McRae, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Lee Konitz, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andy Summers, Billy Cobham, Amy Winehouse, Keith Jarrett and others.

The structure of this piece is AABA, the rhythm is slow, a factor that creates comfort for the improviser, as well as the passages in II-V that is well known to jazz musicians.

It is important to note that this Backing Track follows the 1988 review note of Real Book # 1, which states that the chords that should appear in the sixth bar of part A are |Gbmaj7 Ab7| and in the third bar of part B is |Cm7b5 B7|.

The instruments that make up this accompaniment track are: Drums, Bass and Piano. The tempo is at 65bpm.

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