The &b bCommon Jazz Chord Progressions Jazz, like every music genre, has its overused clichés and standard repertoire Sometimes a song becomes so well known and widely played that it becomes a Jazz Standard And these Jazz Standards often become or are built from commonly used chord progressions Below is a list of common Jazz chord progressionsThe maj7 chord is often substituted for the min7 chord Building a maj7 off of the b3 of a min7 chord will give you all the chord tones in the min7 (excluding the root) plus the 9 th Am7 contains notes Rb35b7 or ACEG Cmaj7 contains notes R357 or CEGB Relative to the Am7, the notes in the Cmaj7 give you the b3 , 5 (E), b7 (G Abmaj7 G Maj7 Ukulele Chord Position 2 E maj7