Jazz Standards Library

Chords & Changes

Alone Together

Alone Together — chords and changes, key facts, and listening notes.

Alone Together was composed by Arthur Schwartz. The lyrics are credited to Howard Dietz. It dates from 1932. It is in C minor, 44 bars long, and in AABA (14-14-8-8) form.

Chart

Chord chart

Four bars per row · sections labelled

C minor

Section A1

Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Gm7b5C7b9
Fm7
Fm7
Am7D7
Fm7Bb7
Ebmaj7
Dm7b5G7
Cmaj7
Dm7b5G7

Section A2

Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Gm7b5C7b9
Fm7
Fm7
Am7D7
Fm7Bb7
Ebmaj7
Dm7b5G7
Cmaj7
Cmaj7

Section B1

Gm7b5
C7b9
Fm6
Fm6
Fm7b5
Bb7b9
Ebmaj7
Dm7b5G7b9

Section A3

Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Dm7b5G7b9
Cm6
Ab7G7
Cm6
Dm7b5G7

Changes confidence: high. Source: Weimar Jazz Database (Jazzomat Research Project, HfM Weimar), ODbL 1.0. Changes as annotated by the Jazzomat Research Project, licensed under the ODbL 1.0.

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Recordings (from MusicBrainz)

  • Marge Dodson — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    1960
  • Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    1987
  • Cyrus Chestnut Trio — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    1996
  • Billy Taylor & Wes Montgomery — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    1997
  • Herb Geller — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2005
  • Artie Shaw and His Orchestra — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2008

Recording credits and years follow the entries in the dataset. Source: MusicBrainz.

Landmark solos

Solos analysed in the Weimar Jazz Database

  • Paul Desmond (alto sax) — Take Ten
    Cool jazz · 200 bpm · swing feel
  • Steve Lacy (soprano sax) — Steve Lacy featuring Roswell Rudd, Don Cherry, Carl Brown, Bill Higgins, Winton Kelly, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles and Henry Grimes
    Hard bop · 135 bpm · swing feel
    1995

Solo, record, style, tempo and feel as catalogued by the Jazzomat Research Project (ODbL 1.0). Release year is the year of the catalogued issue, which can be a later reissue.

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