Rhythm Changes

[MusiCal]

There are a lot of jazz standards base upon "I Got Rhythm" aka Rhythm Changes. Do you know one that is played at slow tempos like a ballad?

[jazz oud]

Originally Posted by MusiCal

There are a lot of jazz standards base upon "I Got Rhythm" aka Rhythm Changes. Do you know one that is played at slow tempos like a ballad?

Not a ballad, but "Good Bait" is medium-slow, about as slow as it could get.
The bridge is just a transposed "A", not the RC bridge.

[engelbach]

Originally Posted by MusiCal

There are a lot of jazz standards base upon "I Got Rhythm" aka Rhythm Changes. Do you know one that is played at slow tempos like a ballad?

There are some ballads that use the A section of RC, or at least a variant of it, but I don't of any that also use the B section.

Here's one that uses a variant of the A section, Love Is the Sweetest Thing.

I can't post a lead sheet on AAJ because of copyright restrictions, but here are the changes (which are of course no surprise, at least in the A section).

||: DΔ - Bm7 - | Em7 - A7 - | DΔ - Bm7 - | Em7 - A7 - |

| Am7 - D7 - | GΔ - C7#11 - ||

1. | Bm7 - Bb7 - | Em7 - A7 - :||

2., 3. | Bm7 - Bb7 - | Em7 A7 DΔ - ||

| Bm7 - - - | E7 - - - | Em7 - A7 - | DΔ - - (B7) |

| Em7 - F#7 - | Bm7 - - - | E7 - - - | Em7 - A7 - | D.C. al 3