Afternoon in Paris

This article is about the 1949 jazz standard. For the John Lewis album, see Afternoon in Paris (album).

"Afternoon in Paris" is a 1949 jazz standard. It was written by John Lewis.[1]

"Afternoon in Paris" has a 32-bar AABA form and is usually played in the key of C major. In several of the song's phrases, the tonal center changes (when played in C, there is a shift to B♭ and A♭), defining a complex harmonic structure that is of interest to both theoreticians and soloists.[2][3]

Notable recordings

See also

References

  1. ^ "Afternoon in Paris". Jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Afternoon in Paris". LearnJazzStandards.com. 12 January 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ Rohrmeier, M.; Cross, I. (2009). Tacit tonality: Implicit learning of context-free harmonic structure. 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM 2009). Jyväskylä, Finland.



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