Bolivia (Walton song)

First four bars of Cedar Walton's Bolivia

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Bolivia is composed in G major and typically played in an Afro-Cuban style.

The song contains a bass ostinato^[5] that is repeated throughout the first 16 bars of the song. The first 16 bars are entirely based upon a G7(13) chord.

The B section—or the final 16 bars—contains the following form. After the B-section, the song repeats with the same bass ostinato.

• Eastern Rebellion in Eastern Rebellion (1976)^[6]
• Sam Jones in Something in Common (1978)
• Doug Raney Quintet in I'll Close My Eyes (1982)
• Freddie Hubbard in Bolivia (1991)
• Cody Moffett in Evidence (1993)
• John Carlini in Further Adventures (2007)
• Sean Dobbins and the Modern Jazz Messengers in Blue Horizons (2008)