Afternoon in Paris
"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
- Phineas Newborn Quartet, Here Is Phineas (Atlantic, May 1956)
- John Lewis and Sacha Distel, Afternoon in Paris (Atlantic, 1957)
- Benny Golson Quintet, Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (United Artists, 1958)
- Sonny Rollins and Co., Now's the Time (RCA Victor, 1964)
- John Lewis, solo piano, Evolution (Atlantic, January 1999)
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See also
References
- "Afternoon in Paris". Jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- "Afternoon in Paris". LearnJazzStandards.com. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- 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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