Seven Come Eleven

Hey look, I posted this song on March 7th at 7:11.....maybe I should have waited until July 11th. Then the date would be 7/11. There was no internet in the year 711, though (and I wasn't alive yet), so I couldn't have posted it then.
Now for the song. I had heard of this song a couple times, but I had never listened to it. When I told my teacher that I was struggling to pick another song to learn, he suggested that I just find one and listen to it. So I picked a letter and looked in the contents of The Real Book for all the songs that started with S. Instead of picking a number, I said, "Why don't I try Seven come Eleven?" Then I did the three L's: Listen, Like, and Learn.


I've read on a website called Learn Jazz Standards, which has lots of good advice for people who want to play jazz better, that you should never skip any of these. You always have to listen to songs, and you shouldn't force yourself to put effort into something that you don't want to or have to do. And there's no point listening to and liking the song if you don't do anything, right?

Ohh..it's probably taken you 4 minutes to read this. And hopefully you opened this post at 7:07, right? and now it's 7:11. So, it used to be seven, now it's eleven. Seven come eleven!

One last thing before I let you listen to the song. One part of this song doesn't have any melody written on the sheet music. On recordings, it sounds like the horn players solo for that part of the song. Just putting in their sevens and elevens, huh?

One more side note. (Not a note that you see on sheet music.) You might notice that there are bass and drum sounds on this recording. (When you listen to it, of course.) That's because I recorded this song with iReal Pro, an app that makes backing tracks for songs just like these. I'd better let everyone know because I didn't make the backing track and I don't want to make it look like I did.

Now click listen before it's not 7:11 anymore!

Oh. I posted it at 7:11. You couldn't have seen it and finished reading it at the exact minute I posted it, right?