Nature Boy on Selmer SBA Tenor Sax

You can download this backing track from my website: Wikipedia says: “Nature Boy“ is a song first recorded by American jazz singer Nat King Cole. It was released on March 29, 1948, as a single by Capitol Records, and later appeared on the album, The Nat King Cole Story. It was written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester, who practiced the Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophies adopted by ahbez. “Nature Boy“ was released during the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) ban of 1948. It reached the top of the Billboard music charts and sold over a million copies, helping to establish Cole’s solo career, and introducing him to the white music market. “Nature Boy“ was the subject of lawsuits, with Yiddish composer Herman Yablokoff claiming that it was plagiarized from his song “Shvayg mayn harts“ (שװײג מײן האַרץ, “Be Still My Heart“). Eventually,
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