“Afternoon in Paris” is a 1949 jazz standard that was written by John Lewis.
Its harmonic progression presents a few interesting characteristics: a tonal center shifting down by whole steps, a minor II V with a major resolution, a diatonic turnaround and some contiguous II V.
Video lessons:
Playlist
Français
English
Phil Dwyer
Magic Formula
Playlist
Français
Inscrivez-vous pour voir ce cours et télécharger les PDFs!
English
Join us to watch this lesson and download the PDFs!
Phil Dwyer
Join us to watch this lesson about Phil Dwyer solo and download the PDFs!
Magic Formula
Join us to watch this lesson and download the “Afternoon in Paris” PDFs!
2 comments on “Afternoon in Paris”
This is another standard that sounds really cool over a pedal point. Here I am having fun playing the I, IV, V major triads of each key of the moment over a tonic pedal (A section) and a dominant pedal (B section):