After You've Gone — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
After You've Gone by Turner Layton & Henry Creamer — key of G (manouche), form A. Below is the full chord grid; on Haute Gitanerie you can play along with a scrolling chord ribbon, transpose to any key, set the tempo, and switch on a rhythm backing (la pompe) to practise your solos over the changes.
About
A 1918 song by Turner Layton (lyrics by Henry Creamer), After You've Gone is one of the most enduring early jazz standards — recorded by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Django, and a natural fit for gypsy swing.
The sound — G major with rich, restless harmony: an early C–Cm6 move, dominants circling (E7, A7, D7) and side-steps through the relative minor. Bittersweet lyric, buoyant swing feel.
Practising it — outline G major, then handle the C–Cm6 colour and the dominant cycle with clean arpeggios (E7, A7, D7). Watch the Am–B7–Em turn. Medium-up tempo, and let the guide tones lead your lines.
After You've Gone chords — the grille
A : | C | C | Cm6 | Cm6 | G | G | E7 | E7 | A7 | A7 | D7 | D7 | G | G | Dm | G7 | C | C | Cm6 | Cm6 | G | G | E7 | E7 | Am | E7 | Am | Cm6 | G | B7 | Em | A7 | G | E7 | Am | D7 | G | G | Dm | G7 |
Chords used
C · Cm6 · G · E7 · A7 · D7 · Dm · G7 · Am · B7 · Em
Videos — After You've Gone
Jammed live
- Django Reinhardt Festival 2026 - Off in Samoreau - J-3 - After you've gone - Night Jam 2 — Axel Couty
Play along
Open the interactive grille for After You've Gone: loop any section, transpose to any key, set the tempo, and play over a rhythm accompaniment — with a real recorded pompe on featured tunes. In the browser, free.