Are there standards that feature this movement?

[brent.h]

Here's a 1991 tune (features Branford Marsalis, too!)

Most of the song is Ebmaj7, Gmin7, Dmin7, Fmin7, Bb9sus4.

The other section is just Cmin7, Fmin7, Bb7, G7, Cmin7, Fmin7, B7.

The movement I'm refering to is the Gmin7 (iii7) to Dmin7 (vii7).

In my opinion, this move is the thing that makes the song sound so unique. I also love that it moves a perfect fifth up (or perfect fourth down), which is the exact opposite direction of what my ears are used to hearing (chords moving up in perfect fourths).

Are there jazz standards where there's this iii7 to vii7 thing?

[Mick-7]

Not uncommon in minor tunes but it's IVm > Im, e.g., Fm > Cm in Caravan.

In a major tune, it would be IVm7 > IIIm7, as in A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square: Eb^7 > Cm7 > Gm7.

[AllanAllen]

There's a Cm in Caravan? I play it a C7b9 C#diminished vamp with an Fminor turnaround.

[Mick-7]

There's a Cm in Caravan? I play it a C7b9 C#diminished vamp with an Fminor turnaround.

In it's B section, 2 or 3 bars of the F7 chord are often replaced with Cm chords, and the same can be done with the Bb7 & Eb7 chords that follow the F7 (i.e., sub IIm7 for V7), but it was a bad example to make my point.

[befiddled]

I can’t imagine Wynton would have approved of this.