Summertime - by George Gershwin

MP3s - Summertime MP3

Here is the Chord progression for Summertime in the key of A minor. I took these from one of the original Real Books in the 1980s.

| Am | Bb7 | Am | A7 |
| Dm | F7 | B7 | E7 ||
| Am | Bb7 | Am | D7 |
| C | D7     E7 | Am | Am :||

I love the Bb7 and F7 chords in this setting and have used Lydian dominant scales for my improvisation over both of them :

Bb7 = Bb C D E F G Ab Bb

F7   = F G A B C D Eb F