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Popular Jazz Songs: 2023

By Michael Ricci
January 3, 2024
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All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2023. Of course these lists tend to favor songs featured earlier in the year so we identified five hard chargers (in the comments section) that would have cracked this list with more time. Click the album covers below to listen. Enjoy!

Contemporary Insanity

From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 3: Prog Fusion
By Tobin Mueller

In the Grove of the Jacarandas

From: Brazilian Match
By Luiz Millan

Three Views Of A Secret

From: Three Views Of A Secret Jaco Pastorius
By Selma Boragian

Espelho Solar (Solar Mirror)

From: Espelho Solar -Rodrigo Lima feat Ithamara Koorax
By Rodrigo Lima

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You

From: Life Is Like A Song
By Vanessa Thomas

Flying Waltz

From: Saga
By Rodrigo Lima

Fat Foot

From: At First Light
By Ralph Towner

Big Daddy

From: Elements And Orbits
By Randolph Noel

Amelia

From: Dance of the Elders
By Wolfgang Muthspiel

Mr. Weird

From: Introspection
By Eunmi Lee

La Flor de la Canela

From: Femininas
By Edward Simon

Africa

From: Africa
By Laura Marti

Decathexis

From: The Unknown
By Brad Goode

Terra Nova

From: In What Direction Are You Headed?
By Joe Farnsworth

Moon Rising

From: Moon Rising
By Adrian Dennis

One Day at a Time

From: East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
By Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott

Love Is For The Birds

From: Nowhere Girl
By Nicky Schrire

Toy Trumpet

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Quartet San Francisco

The End of Innocence

From: The Winds of Change
By Billy Childs

Straight No Chaser

From: YOU Are The Song
By Jean-Michel Pilc

Shenandoah

From: Open Spaces
By Daniel Hersog

If I Only Had a Brain

From: Vibes on a Breath
By Ted Piltzecker

Singularity

From: Moonlighting—Astrojazz Vol. 1
By Astrocolor

Abdominales

From: Agustin Strizzi 5t Vol 2
By Agustin Strizzi

Uncle John's Band

From: Uncle John's Band
By John Scofield

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