Date:	16-Nov-1999 07:42:14
From:	ChriS (cslawec9@idt.net)
	Ellington. Basie. Monk. Horace Silver. Hoagy Carmichael. And in a lighter mood, I've got to include Lennon/McCartney, Jagger-Richards, and Fagen-Becker.

 

Date:	16-Nov-1999 11:56:17
From:	Michael Ricci
	The songs/songbooks of George & Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern have been covered by jazzers since the '20s. Sammy Cahn penned quite a few tunes for Ol' Blue Eyes ("High Hopes" and "Call Me Irresponsible").

 

Date:	16-Nov-1999 12:16:45
From:	Michael Ricci (mricci@visionx.com)
	One of my personal faves is Antonio Carlos Jobim. "Desafinado", "One Note Samba", "Corcovado" and "The Girl From Ipanema" are just a few of his more popular tunes. He was (and I'm sure still is) Brazil's most distinguished songsmith.

 

Date:	17-Nov-1999 08:31:32
From:	Jimbo
	Johnny Mercer did a little

 

Date:	17-Nov-1999 12:09:05
From:	Max DeLucas
	Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern. 'nuff said!

 

Date:	20-Nov-1999 09:29:44
From:	Don Voltmer (donvolt@rof.net)
	George & Ira Gershwin - They wrote many, many great songs. Here are some of them and a few jazz artists who have benefited from them - A Foggy Day (Artie Shaw, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald,Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner) Somebody Loves Me (Benny Goodman, Zoot Sims, Nat Cole,Teddy Wilson) But Not For Me (Dexter Gordon, Joey De Francesco, Teddy Wilson) Embraceable You (Charlie Shavers, Jo Jones, Miles Davis, Les Paul, Stan Getz,Teddy Wilson) How Long Has This Been Going On? (Chet Baker, Dave Grusin, Ruby Braff, Stan Getz) I Got Rhythm (Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner, Judy Carmichael, Red Norvo, Cannonball Adderley, Nat Cole, Pete Fountain, Teddy Wilson,Stephane Grappelli) Love Walked In (Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, Frank Sinatra, MJQ, Ray Brown) Nice Work If You Can Get It (Benny Goodman, Dave Grusin, Erroll Garner, Kai Winding, Carmen McRae, Thelonious Monk, Teddy Wilson) Oh Lady Be Good (Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald) Our Love Is Here To Stay (Dave Grusin, Ben Webster, MJQ, Teddy Wilson, Wild Bill Davidson) 'S Wonderful (Dave Brubeck, Dave Grusin, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Pete Fountain, Ruby Braff) Someone To Watch Over Me (Erroll Garner, Herb Alpert, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer, Stephane Grappelli) The Man I Love (Diane Schuur, Roy Eldridge, Harry James, Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton, Nat Cole, Teddy Wilson, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman) They Can't Take That Away From Me (Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Milt Jackson) I Loves You Porgy (Dave Grusin, Diane Schuur, Nina Simone, Bill Evans) Summertime (Charles Mingus, Jack McDuff, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Shirley Scott, Teddy Wilson)

 

Date:	27-Nov-1999 13:02:32
From:	Paul Abella (Pabella3@aol.com)
	two words: Wayne Shorter

 

Date:	04-Dec-1999 04:57:07
From:	D C DowDell (keyplyr@email.com)
	Cole porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Henry Mancini http://apassion4jazz.cjb.net

 

Date:	19-Dec-1999 21:20:43
From:	Dan Sermeno (ramtrane@soca.com)
	Greatest jazz songwriters? Or all-time songwriters? For my money I'll take George Gershwin largely due to the exquisitely perfect "Bess, You is My Women Now". I'll also concur with P.Abella's Wayne Shorter and up him with "Deelightful" Lee Morgan.

 

Date:	17-Jan-2000 10:12:23
From:	dan patten (dpatten@mtt.ca)
	alot of great songwriters but i can't see anyone comparing to the gerchwins-too many jems to list

 

Date:	30-Apr-2000 04:31:10
From:	o.bivins
	George and Ira get my vote. By chance I happened to see a documentary on them (mostly George) a few yrs. ago on the Bravo channel and have been into their music ever since. They were geniuses.

 

Date:	24-Aug-2000 12:56:32
From:	Rob Mounsey (mounsey@flyingmonkey.com)
	I'd like to cast a vote for a couple of geniuses known to some as Dick Rogers & Larry Hart... (You know, Richard & Lorenz.) "My Romance" is a perfect song...

 

Date:	04-Sep-2000 16:38:20
From:	G Kegg
	Porter without question, just hear Too Darn Hot, failing that Noel Coward

 

Date:	10-Oct-2000 09:15:44
From:	ari
	Everyone knows the songs of lennon/mcartney. sorry to rehash the old cliches...but they were,will,and always will be the greatest living songwriters in human history.it is unbridled what they did for every genre of music and i mean every genre.

 

Date:	09-Dec-2000 01:42:27
From:	Gustavo (kordelia9@yahoo.com)
	If we think songwriting as put together some lyrics and some music, I think there´ s a lot of great songwriters, from jazz to folk and even "Brodway style". But if we think the song as a whole, there´ s no doubt about it: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. As a team, alone or just a name for a band: The Beatles. Under that name are the better music of this century.

 

Date:	23-Feb-2001 05:01:09
From:	Jakob Henrikson (jakob.henrikson@alfa.telenordia.se)
	Johnny Mercer is one of the best. The brazilian sambaman Jobim has also contriuted a lot to the world of music (and jazz).

 

Date:	21-Mar-2001 12:53:41
From:	rob
	If you use the term "greatest" I would have to say Lennon McCartney. They were (and there music still is) greater than any other singer/songwriters of the 20th century. I can't think of any others that did as much, musically, as they did. Do the comparisons and let me know if you come up with something different.

 

Date:	14-May-2001 19:59:40
From:	Mr Monk (Markhughes26Hotmail.com)
	It is really interesting considering how many arguments people can have over all facets of music that greatest songwriter is so easily given to George Gershwin. His songs are simply perfect. What amazes me still is that he produced these heavenly gems out of the same bloody melodic patterns and even though i know them, every time i try to steal his style i sound like chaz and dave. I also agree with DAN, that BESS YOU IS MY WOMEN NOW is the most sublime song ever written.

 

Date:	19-Jun-2001 07:52:51
From:	James (jaandthemods@hotmail.com)
	I am sick at the beatles, they were flat and simple. im sorry but the songs they produce were so dull and two dimensional. SGT pepper and abbey road are brilliant though, their lyrics are uninspireing and made to flow by using absaloute nonsence, and the music has no attempt at virtuosity or energy. The only way people ever liked them because, it is what they grew up with as standard pop music, like children today and the spice gils or other crap. and it provokes a subconcious reaction to feel enjoyment. if you were ever to look at songwriting in a way where it actually has class then you have to look at Bob Dylan or Pete Townshend, im sorry but no one has ever come close to the standard of lyrical conntent that these two have. There will never be as good an album for songwriting after quadrophenia. Im sixteen and i am looking back at my parents generation and seeing it from the outside, which is far clearer than anyone that lived through it.

 

Date:	22-Jul-2001 02:10:20
From:	Doel Fuentes (lennonimagine80@hotmail.com)
	Definetly John Lennon is the greatest songwriter of all time!

 

Date:	11-Sep-2001 05:02:08
From:	Carolyn
	Even though I was born in 1965 during the middle of their recording career,I have been a huge Beatles fan specifically a John and Paul fan since I was a child.Because John Lennon and Paul McCartney were both such brilliantly talented song writers,the best of the cntury!

 

Date:	11-Sep-2001 05:03:52
From:	Carolyn
	Even though I was born in 1965 during the middle of their recording career,I have been a huge Beatles fan specifically a John and Paul fan since I was a child.Because John Lennon and Paul McCartney were both such brilliantly talented song writers,the best of the century!

 

Date:	17-Oct-2001 22:28:43
From:	Man on the Flaming Pie
	The greatest songwriter of all team were two persons,John Winston Lennon and James Paul McCartney, because they were born to be that. Paul was sweet and lovely with an amazing imagination and John was ironic and clever with his own world. They needed each other like night and day, they sat in a room with a pair of guitars and made the greatest songs ever made. They didn´t know to write or read music,but they got their imagination to follow their dream. They wrote easily because all the songs were inside them, waiting to go out. They love their music very much... and in the end, the love you take it´s equal to the love you made.