Caravan — chords & grille (gypsy jazz)
Caravan by Duke Ellington & Juan Tizol & Irving Mills — key of F (swing), form A A B 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.
Caravan chords — the grille
A : | A7 | B♭7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | B♭7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | B♭7 | A7 | A7 | Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm |
B : | D7 | D7 | D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 | F | F | A7 | A7 |
Chords used
A7 · B♭7 · Dm · D7 · G7 · C7 · F
Play along
Open the interactive grille to play Caravan with the backing track (beta), transpose it, and slow it down — a practice backing to blow over, right in the browser, free.