List of jazz standards

List of jazz standards

Influential jazz composers often contribute tunes to the repertoire of jazz standards— well-known tunes which are held in continuing esteem and which are widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians.

Compositions by Author

*Dave Brubeck::"Blue Rondo A La Turk"::"The Duke"::"In Your Own Sweet Way"

*John Coltrane::"Giant Steps"::"Countdown"::"Moment's Notice"::"Naima"::"Mr. P.C."::"A Love Supreme"::"Crescent"

*Paul Desmond::"Take Five"

*Bill Evans::"Waltz for Debby"::"Peri's Scope"::"Time Remembered"::"Sugar Plum"::"Displacement"::"Five"::"Interplay"::"Loose Bloose"

*Miles Davis::"All Blues"::"Boplicity"::"Octave Deprivation"::"Milestones"::"Four"::"Solar"::"So What"::"Freddie Freeloader"::"Tune-Up"

*Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington::"Take the 'A' Train"::"Sophisticated Lady"::"Mood Indigo"::"Caravan"::"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"::"Satin Doll"

*Erroll Garner::"Misty"

*David Raksin::"Laura"

*Herbie Hancock::"Cantaloupe Island"::"Watermelon Man"::"Maiden Voyage"::"Chameleon"::"The Eye of The Hurricane"::"Dolphin Dance"::"Speak Like a Child"::"Tell Me a Bedtime Story"

*Palle Mikkelborg::"Aura"

*Charles Mingus::"Fable of Faubus"::"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"

*Thelonious Monk::"Straight No Chaser"::"Criss Cross"::"Ruby, My Dear"::"Evidence"::"Well, You Needn't (It's Over Now)"::"'Round Midnight"::"Monk's Mood"::"Monk's Dream"::"Blue Monk"::"Nutty"::"Bye-Ya"::"Epistrophy"

*Charlie "Bird" Parker::"Now's the Time"::"Billie's Bounce"::"Confirmation"::"Leap Frog"::"Yardbird Suite"::"Donna Lee"::"My Little Suede Shoes"::"Anthropology"::"Ornithology"

*Arturo Sandoval::"Sandunga

*Wayne Shorter::"Speak No Evil"::"Witch Hunt"::"JuJu"::"Footprints"::"Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum"::"Wild Flower"::"E.S.P."::"Infant Eyes"

Randy Weston::"Hi-Fly"

Horace Silver::"Song For My Father"

Further reading

*"Jazz Standards" (February 1, 1998). Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0793588723
*"The Real Book" (September 1, 2004). Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0634060384 (Vols. 1-3)
*Aebersold, Jamey. "Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Along Series". Vols. 1-120
*"The New Real Book". Vols. 1-3. Sher Music Company.
*"The Standards Real Book". Sher Music Company.


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