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Blue Bossa by Kenny Dorham is a great jazz standard to play over and contains a very nice chord progression that is suitable even for beginners. Blue Bossa is usually one of the first jazz standards that people learn to improvise over. Blue Bossa is written here in the key or C minor. There is only really one A section to this tune. It starts in C minor and modulates up a half step to Db major. Once you have learned the melody and chord changes to Blue Bossa you will need to know how to improvise over it.
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Autumn Leaves is a classic jazz standard that everyone will come across at some point. This is one of the most popular jazz standards of all time and it is typically one of the first standards people learn to play. The song itself follows a simple 32 bar AB structure. The song features both a major and minor 2 5 1 progression and offers you a fairly gentle introduction into the world of jazz improvisation.
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