On the Sunny Side of the Street
Added 2021-03-02 19:02:59 +0000 UTCThank you to my dear friend, Alexander Pejcic, who plays the keyboard in this video of the well known jazz standard On the Sunny Side of the Street.
As in my most recent jazz videos I decided to go with the soothing combination of jazz guitar and Hammond. For me, it's a sweet jazz sound :)
The song is usually played in the key of C major. Here is a breakdown of the three choruses: the first one, reserved for the theme, is in the key of C major, then we modulate to Eb major and play the following two choruses in that key. A short bridge of four bars is added to enable a smooth transition to the next tonality. The second chorus is reserved for interchanging solos, as is the first half of the last chorus. And then the second half of the last chorus takes us back to the theme, this time in Eb major.
The form of the song is:
A A B A (C major)
bridge
A A B A (Eb major)
A A B A (Eb major)
I made an additional PDF with just the chord changes so you would have a clear view of the workings.
