Autumn Leaves is one of the most important jazz standards that you MUST know, and so I’ve put up 2 more playalongs and some additional recordings. It’s usually played in Bb/Gm or G/Em. It’s really in the minor key, but it moves in and out of the major key often enough that it is worth listing it in both keys. If someone asks me what key we should play it in on the bandstand, I’d say either Gm or Em, or I might list both keys. I wouldn’t say just the major key; the last chord is the tonic minor, [...]

This is the last post in a 13 part series on the blues in all 12 keys. There are hundreds of jazz tunes that are based on the chord changes to I Got Rhythm. Other than the blues, rhythm changes are the most common chord changes in jazz. Here is a list of tunes based on the chords to I Got Rhythm. As Oscar for Treadwell-Dizzy Gillespie Anthropology Apple Jump Celerity Chasin’ the Bird Constellation Cotton Tail Crazeology Dexterity Dizzy Atmosphere Eternal Triangle Fifty-second Street Theme-Monk Five Guys Named Moe Fingers-Thad Jones Flintstones I Got Rhythm Jay Jay Jaybird Jeep [...]