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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)


 
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 goes

Expression 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...


 
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!


 
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........


 
Date:  27-Dec-1999 03:03:18
From:  LEONARD RASHID BOOKER (LRBOOKER@HOTMAIL.COM)
 


 
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)


 
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 :)


 
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


 
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


 
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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