All the Things You Are

"All the Things You Are" is a song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.

The song was written for the musical Very Warm for May (1939)[1][2] and was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and Ralph Stuart.

Using a delay cycle, D♭ being the tritone substitution for G7, the last 3 bars of the A section modulates to the key of C major temporarily.

Because of its combination of a strong melody and challenging but logical chord structure, "All the Things You Are" has become a popular jazz standard.

Its changes have been used for such contrafact tunes as "Bird of Paradise" by Charlie Parker,[2] "Prince Albert" by Kenny Dorham, "All The Things That You Can C#" by Charles Mingus, and "Boston Bernie" by Dexter Gordon.

"Thingin'" by Lee Konitz introduced a further harmonic twist by transposing the chords of the second half of the tune by a tritone.