Here’s a brighter-medium tempo jazz practice loop, sampled from Night & Day, played by Bill Evans on his album Everybody Digs Bill Evans— one of my favorite records, period. The loop is one chorus of Evans’s solo— 48 bars, or ABABCB, with each section 8 bars long. Tempo is 169 bpm.
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