Standards

All The Things You Are chords & key

Key: A♭ major
Form: ABCD
Bars: 36
Groove: Medium-up swing
Time signature: 4/4

“All The Things You Are” is a jazz standard by Jerome Kern. It is usually played in A♭ major as a medium-up swing, and the 36-bar ABCD form has 4 sections. Harmonically it contains 7 major ii–V–I cadences and 1 minor ii–V–i, uses 22 different chords and moves between the key centres A♭ major, G major, C major, E♭ major and E minor. In this atlas it appears on 24 album tracks and in 4 transcribed solos.

Chord changes

to key

Showing in: Concert (C) — A♭ major

F^m7

B♭^m7

E♭⁷

A♭^maj7

D♭^maj7

D^m7G⁷

C^maj7

C^m7

F^m7

B♭⁷

E♭^maj7

A♭^maj7

A^m7D⁷

G^maj7

A^m7

D⁷

G^maj7

G♭^m7♭5

B^7♭9

E^maj7

C^7♭13

F^m7

B♭^m7

E♭⁷

A♭^maj7

D♭^maj7

D♭^mmaj7

C^m7

B^dim7

B♭^m7

E♭⁷

A♭^maj7

G^m7♭5C^7♭9

Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.

Harmonic analysis

7Major ii–V–I

1Minor ii–V–i

9ii–V moves

0Tritone substitutions

0Dominant chains

22Different chords

Most used chords

A♭^maj7×4
G^maj7×4
F^m7×3
B♭^m7×3
E♭⁷×3
D♭^maj7×2

Key centres reached by ii–V

A♭ major, G major, C major, E♭ major and E minor

Recorded on these albums

1947	Songs by Sinatra Frank Sinatra · “All the Things You Are”
1947	Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars Dizzy Gillespie · “All the Things You Are”
1950	Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos Erroll Garner · “All the Things You Are”
1952	Passport to Fame: Erroll Garner’s First Recordings Erroll Garner · “All the Things You Are”
1952	The Dave Brubeck Quartet The Dave Brubeck Quartet
1953	Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman · “All the Things You Are”
1953	Overture to Dawn, Volume 5 Erroll Garner · “All the Things You Are”
1954	On Savoy: Billy Eckstine Billy Eckstine · “All the Things You Are”
1955	The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker Chet Baker · “All the Things You Are”
1955	Jam Session in Paris Lionel Hampton · “All the Things You Are”
1955	Swing Guitars Oscar Moore, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow · “All the Things You Are”
1955	The Love Songs Of Mr. “B” Billy Eckstine · “All the Things You Are”
1956	Tenderly Oscar Peterson · “All the Things You Are”
1956	Mingus at the Bohemia Charles Mingus · “All the Things You C#”
1956	Her Trio Her Quartet Toshiko · “All the Things You Are”
1956	That Towering Feeling! Vic Damone · “All the Things You Are”
1956	Lennie Tristano Lennie Tristano · “All the Things You Are”
1956	Blue Serge Serge Chaloff · “All the Things You Are”
1956	Guy Lafitte Avec Franck Pourcel Et Son Orchestre Guy Lafitte Avec Franck Pourcel Et Son Orchestre · “All the Things You Are”
1957	Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows Sarah Vaughan · “All the Things You Are”
1957	The Sounds of Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith · “All the Things You Are”
1957	Konitz Meets Mulligan Lee Konitz · “All the Things You Are”
1957	Afternoon in Paris John Lewis & Sacha Distel · “All the Things You Are”
1957	A Blowin' Session Johnny Griffin · “All the Things You Are”

Transcribed solos on All The Things You Are

Zoot Sims tenor saxophone	192 BPM	Ab-maj	1950-04-23
Milt Jackson vibraphone	167 BPM	Ab-maj	1952-12-22
Lee Konitz alto saxophone	193 BPM	Ab-maj	1955-06-11
Pat Metheny guitar	307 BPM	F-maj	1989-12-21

Historic 78 rpm recordings

ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE MAYNARD FERGUSON · CHARLIE BARNET and His Orchestra · Jerome Kern archive.org ↗
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE The 38th Special Service Co. Orchestra · Kern · BUD FREEMAN archive.org ↗
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE BEN LIGHT · HERB KERN · Jerome Kern · Oscar Hammerstein archive.org ↗
All the Things You Are Clyde Hart · Denzil Best · Oscar Pettiford · Charlie Shavers ·… · 1944 archive.org ↗
All The Things You Are Babe Russin Quartet · Kern · Hammerstein · Babe Russin · Arnold Ross… · 1946 archive.org ↗

Standards with similar changes

Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.

Title	Composer	Key	Form	Groove
Ablution 30%	Lennie Tristano	A♭ major	ABCD · 36	Medium swing

Frequently asked questions

What key is All The Things You Are in?

All The Things You Are is usually played in A♭ major. For B♭ instruments that is B♭ major, for E♭ instruments F major.

Who wrote All The Things You Are?

All The Things You Are was written by Jerome Kern.

What is the form of All The Things You Are?

All The Things You Are has 4 sections (ABCD) with 36 bars in total.

How fast is All The Things You Are played?

The usual groove is Medium-up swing. Transcribed solos in our data were played at 192 BPM, 167 BPM, 193 BPM and 307 BPM.

What are the chord changes to All The Things You Are?

The opening bars are Fm7 | Bbm7 | Eb7 | Abmaj7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.