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2.69Your job is not to “master Autumn Leaves”
Use it as a laboratory.
Play it:
- as ballad
- as swing
- as bossa
- in 3/4
- with shells
- with rootless voicings
- with one substitution
- with no substitutions
- with paraphrased melody
One tune can teach months of material.