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 11 album tracks and in 4 transcribed solos.
Chord changes
Showing in: Concert (C) — A♭ major
Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.
Harmonic analysis
Most used chords
- A♭maj7×4
- Gmaj7×4
- Fm7×3
- 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” |
| 1956 | Tenderly Oscar Peterson · “All the Things You Are” |
| 1962 | At Carnegie Hall Recorded Live June 9, 1962 Tony Bennett with Ralph Sharon and His Orchestra · “All the Things You Are” |
| 1963 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Ella Fitzgerald · “All the Things You Are” |
| 1967 | Simply Streisand Barbra Streisand · “All the Things You Are” |
| 1976 | All the Things We Are Dave Brubeck · “All the Things You Are” |
| 1982 | Live Dizzy Gillespie Live With The Mitchell-Ruff Duo |
| 1988 | Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter & Rodgers and Hart Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli · “All the Things You Are” |
| 2026 | Nearness Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks · “All the Things You Are” |
| — | Fascinatin' Rhythm Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelly · “All the Things You Are” |
Transcribed solos on All The Things You Are
| Zoot Sims tenor saxophone | 192 BPM |
| Milt Jackson vibraphone | 167 BPM |
| Lee Konitz alto saxophone | 193 BPM |
| Pat Metheny guitar | 307 BPM |
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.
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.