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Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Various
Paths Unknown
Vector Trio
As We Speak
Mark Egan
Saxually Romantic
J.J. Jones
Speaking of Love
Scott Whitfield
A Lot of Livin' To Do
Jonathan Poretz
Pretty Blues
Antoinette Montague
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| What tunes would make your list of jazz classics that working musicians are always happy to play -- your 'Universal Playlist'? We're especially looking for lesser-known, relatively underexposed songs that make us say 'Yeah, that's a great tune,' or 'I keep meaning to learn that one.' Here are some titles that strike us this way. What would you add? (Please also provide composer if known; and let's skip tunes that get played very frequently, like MISTY.)
| Date: | 22-Sep-1999 15:44:08 |
| From: | Trevor (Hanson@HansonSmithLtd.com) |
| | Here's my list to get things started... All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Anthropology (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke) Bessie's Blues (John Coltrane) Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham) But Beautiful (Jimmy van Heusen, Johnny Burke) Cherokee (Ray Noble) Confirmation (Charlie Parker) Cottontail (Duke Ellington) Desafinado (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) Donna Lee (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) Emily (Johnnie Mandel, Johnny Mercer) Have You Met Miss Jones? (Rodgers and Hart) I Let a Song Go Out Of My Heart (Duke Ellington) I'll Remember April (Raye-de Pal Johnstoni) I'll Take Romance (Ben Oakland, Oscar Hammerstein II) I'm All Smiles (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) I'm Old Fashioned (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) In A Mellow Tone (Duke Ellington) Jordu (Duke Jordan) Joy Spring (Clifford Brown) Just Friends (Klemmer, Lewis) Limehouse Blues (Phillip Braham) My One and Only Love (Wood, Mellin) Nica's Dream (Horace Silver) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (E. Maschwitz) Out of Nowhere (Green, Heyman) Polkadots and Moonbeams (Jimmy van Heusen, Johnny Burke) Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) The Song Is You (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) There Will Never Be Another You (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) These Foolish Things (Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans) What Is This Thing Called Love? (Cole Porter) Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronell) Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) You Took Advantage Of Me (Rodgers and Hart)
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| Date: | 26-Sep-1999 11:44:58 |
| From: | Paul Abella (Pabella3@aol.com) |
| | The list of tunes that everybody loves to play, providing they know the tunes... Blues Connotation Well You Needn't Beatrice Agitation Round Midnight Norwegian wood Too High Lady Sings the Blues Lush Life Lonnie's Lament Dahomey Dance Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Theme for Doris Tom Thumb Fort Worth Stuff Sister Cheryl Granted it's a strange list, but for those of us that know these tunes, they're a blast. |
| Date: | 26-Sep-1999 21:38:54 |
| From: | Vinnie Colaiuta |
| | Humpty Dumpty-Chick Corea Tell me a bedtime story Grand Central Epistrophy Reflections Black Nile Parisian Thoroughfare ....... |
| Date: | 15-Oct-1999 14:09:23 |
| From: | Samba (sheriff_yu@hotmail.com) |
| | Along Came Betty (Golson) Straight, No Chaser (Monk) Blue Train (Coltrane) Billy Boy Funkallero (Evans) Moanin' (Timmons) Song For My Father (Silver) Au Privave (Parker)etc, etc. |
| Date: | 23-Oct-1999 00:18:44 |
| From: | Amy (toots_rulz@hotmail.com) |
| | I'm only 13, yet I love jazz, blues and swing. I play the saxophone and it has opened a whole new world to me. My favourites are a bit of a mixed bunch, but here goesExpression Coltrane Ole' Coltrane Bessie's blues Coltrane In the mood Miller Ecaroh Silver Nutville Silver Song for my father Silver 500 miles high Corea Woody 'n you Gillepsie Mood indigo Duke Ellington Windows Corea Delgado Gomez The promise Coltrane Wise one Coltrane Whenever your heart wants to sing Kevyn Lettau These are all classics. Each with their own individual voice. Please e-mail me and discuss my list toots_rulz@hotmail.com |
| Date: | 12-Nov-1999 00:46:54 |
| From: | Thierry Berney (thberney@hotmail.com) |
| | It's great to list lesser-known songs, but it is no mystery why the greatest jazz songs are repeatedly recorded. Here's my list Lover Man (Ramirez) Lush Life (Strayhorn) Round Midnight (Monk) Body and Soul (Johnny Green) Strange Fruit (Allan) Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) Morning Lovely (Jimmy Rowles) The twelfth of never (Livingston/Webster) Dat dere (Timmons/Oscar Brown Jr) Goodbye Porkpie hat (Mingus) The Island (Bergman/Bergman/Lins/Martins) Until (Cassandra Wilson) Gotta go...
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| Date: | 12-Nov-1999 00:57:44 |
| From: | Thierry Berney (thberney@hotmail.com) |
| | PS: Forgot Embraceable You (Gershwin) Miss Ann (Dolphy) Idle Moments (Duke Pearson)I better stop there, or i will spend the night Cheers to all jazz lovers!
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| Date: | 27-Dec-1999 03:00:48 |
| From: | LEONARD RASHID BOOKER (LRBOOKER@HOTMAIL.COM) |
| | BOY, YOU KNOW IT IS VERY HARD TO SAY WHO'S THE BEST THERE ALL ARE GREAT, I LOVE JAZZ........
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| Date: | 08-Jan-2000 13:32:55 |
| From: | Erick Djerf (erickbone@elpbiz.com) |
| | Personally I would to see the following arrangements come to greater popularity: Misterioso (Monk) Mohawk (J.J. Johnson) Dreamland (Mancini) Emily (Mandel) Goodbye Porkpie Hat (Mingus) Along Came Betty (Golson)
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| Date: | 17-Jan-2000 10:17:21 |
| From: | dan patten (dpatten@mtt.ca) |
| | here's that rainy day candy indiana five foot two all of me i've got a crush on you my blue heaven that old feeling my romance laura lucky so and so bye bye blackbird c jam blues there is no greater love since i fell for you |
| Date: | 17-Feb-2000 16:10:12 |
| From: | jazzyjohn (shendmeshpam@hotmail.com) |
| | I found a random collection of cool artists I love with song samples, tell me what you think, http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/12/classicworld.html |
| Date: | 27-Jun-2000 00:03:20 |
| From: | Chris LaRoche (cronoss@strategyplanet.com) |
| | I'm a in a whole WHACK of Jazz Combo's, bands, etc., and as a very young musician, here is what most of us 'newbies' play often... perhaps too often.... Blue Bossa... this is overdone to the point where I've found myself or others improvising the same solos others have played or whatnot without meaning to :) Blue Monk Chameleon.. It's just so damned easy... Angel Eyes C jam blues. Duh! Spain Au Privave April in Paris Angel Eyes A Night in Tunisia Straight no Chaser Giant Steps - despite the next-to-impossible solo vamp :)
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| Date: | 18-Oct-2000 12:21:08 |
| From: | Billy P. (Im new to the Jazz thang) (brp07901@yahoo.com) |
| | Autumn Leaves
Walken
Blue Bossa
Blue Monk
Sunny
Freddie The Freeloader
All Blues
One Bud Powell tune I can't remember. Summer Time
The Girl From Ipanima
(Tunes I know so far) |
| Date: | 27-Mar-2001 17:05:42 |
| From: | Joel Glassman |
| | How Insensitive Yardbird Suite You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Django's Castle (Manoir de Mes Reves (sp?)) |
| Date: | 30-Apr-2001 01:20:57 |
| From: | Marcopablo (marcopablo@zipmail.com.br) |
| | I just started to come about "jazz". I study music in my country, what is a hard thing, because the culture is not so watched for the government, and the school have to get the things by itslef, like the student of course. I like to say that my english is not good, and I try to wrote with my mind, and sorry for my errors. Thanks for the site to exist.I like very much: Blue Trane; Tune Up; Speak Low; O barquinho: Insensatez; Mr. P.C.; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy . and some others. Good luck for all. |
| Date: | 18-Jun-2001 05:59:54 |
| From: | aristide |
| | alabama autumn leaves bemsha swing bye, bye, blackbird donna lee flamingo giant steps i cover the waterfront invitation round about midnight sous les ponts de paris strange fruit summertime tahiti tiger rag when it's sleepy time down south
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| Date: | 07-Jul-2001 12:59:04 |
| From: | Jaco Kerpel (jacoker@latino.net.co) |
| | AUTUM LEAVES SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW |
| Date: | 25-Jul-2001 14:16:58 |
| From: | Diego Navarro |
| | * Prelude to a Kiss * All the things you are * 'Round midnight
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| Date: | 17-Aug-2001 21:44:56 |
| From: | charlie (bigbandnut@excite.com) |
| | Hi: A Time for Love-Johnny Mandel I have a long sax solo by Zoot Simms of this song. Charlie |
| Date: | 19-Oct-2001 08:34:24 |
| From: | cordelia (raspberry_cordelia@yahoo.com) |
| | Can we also have a "banned for life" thread? i'd like to add Take the A train As for classics, I say: Don't Explain From this moment on Angel eyes Here's that rainy day All the things you are Softly, as in a morning sunrise Born to be Blue |
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