Take the A Train Backing Track - Apply your improvisational skills to this famous jazz theme from the late 1930s.

"Take the A Train" is a jazz song composed in 1939 by Billy Strayhorn for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The form is AABA with 32 bars.

This theme is considered a jazz standard and has been performed by great artists and bands such as Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Charles Mingus Sun Ra, Joe Henderson, Ray Brown, Michel Petrucciani, Dave Grusin, Herman Brood, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Tina May, Diana Krall, James Moody, Clark Terry, Red Mitchell, Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and many others.

This song can be found in "Real Book vol.1" on page 421 and "Real Book vol.6" on page 398.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 170bpm.

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