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The Famous Jazz Standard That Uses This Progression
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Here's a chord progression; how might you improvise, using this as a guide?



/ E            / F            / G        F        / E            /


Here's one way. I could have played simple blocked chords, or even simple broken chords, which would have been fine also, but instead I removed the note from the middle of the LH chord and put it on the top. This open-spaced chord sounds nice in the low register of the keyboard.

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Click here to watch a demonstration video for this improvisation.

Question: What famous jazz standard by which famous composer uses this progression?
Hint: One of the stylistic characteristics of this composer is Latin American rhythms.

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