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## Walking Bass Sound Clip -- Autumn Leaves

    This is a sound clip of walking bass on "Autumn Leaves",
    recorded live at one of my Travelin' Light Duo gigs.

    It almost doesn't make sense to play the tune at this tempo,
    when you listen to the lyrics.
    But it's so often been overdone as a shmaltzy torch song,
    that we decided to have some fun with it.
    After the head, the soloist scatted and we traded fours.
    It wasn't perfect, but we had fun.

    The chords are someone else's reharmonization,
    that happened to be in the singer's book.
    Some of the changes are pretty weird.
    I don't recommend them, but they are interesting.

Click here to hear the sound clip.
Last updated 09/05/2002