Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Summertime is an even more famous Gershwin song, for which DuBose Heyward (author of the novel Porgy, on which Porgy and Bess was based) wrote the lyrics. This Em arrangement aims for be both folky in feel and modern in terms of harmonization, and represents a departure from the alternating bass lines we usually employ for swing jazz. Instead we use a repeating, vamp figure, which will hopefully broaden the student's understanding of the possibilities for standards like this.