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I am compiling a list of the most well known jazz standards with chromatic moving 2 chord vamps in their verses.

I have these three but then I draw a blank... can you continue the list? The criteria are that chords must last 4 beats each, move back and forth by a half step, and it must be a well known standard:

1) "Well You Needn't" ||: F | Gb :||
2) "A Night In Tunisia" ||: Eb7 | D- :||
3) "Caravan" ||: C7 | Db :||
4) ???

Maybe "Pensativa" from Claire Fischer?

I studied briefly with Clare in the '80s. He hated the real book changes that everyone used on Pensativa. In fact when I started playing it for him with the "Night of the cooker" changes, he started yelling at me and said "that's not how I wrote it "!!

Fwiw, here it is with the original changes he wrote . The first page is a condensed lead sheet, the other two pages are Clare's (his own hand) writing with suggested voicings in the first part of the A section..
http://www.divshare.com/download/16856963-eae

Thanks Dave for the Pensativa sheets

Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter starts that way.

Dave, many thanx for posting that.

Bill Dobbins transcribed Claire Fischer playing Pensativa (as solo pianist) in the Alone Together collection

This is a link to it for reference (a lot of places have it)

http://www.penders.com/p/18736100

It's also got a transcription of Yesterdays (also solo piano) that's way past mind-bending.

Claire Fischer arranged many of his tunes for piano, including Pensativa, and they're in a Vol 1 and 2 series

http://www.clarefischer.com/books

Would not mind at all if you reminisced a bit about studying with him ... ...thanks for posting that handwritten lead sheet. that's PRIME SOURCE!

cool dave.. is the "desafinado" quote deliberate, I always wondered that. love clare fisher on the prince album "parade" btw

"Black Nile" by Wayne Shorter.

Black Coffee (Paul Francis Webster)

So What

edit:opps, just noticed the 4 measure caveat in the OP...