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This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes, which includes jazz standards, pop standards, and film song classics which have been sung or performed in jazz on numerous occasions and are considered part of the jazz repertoire. For a chronological list of jazz standards with author details, see the lists in the box on the right. Entries in italics are ...
"Jazz Me Blues" Tom Delaney Eleven: 1979 instrumental "Jill" Harry Connick Jr. Blue Light, Red Light: 1991 "Jingle Bells" James Lord Pierpont: What a Night! A Christmas Album: 2008 "The Jitterbug" Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: Songs I Heard: 2001 "Joe Avery's Piece" traditional: Eleven: 1979 instrumental "Joe Slam and the Spaceship"
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
"Mood Indigo" [4] [10] [32] [33] is a jazz song composed by Barney Bigard and Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills. Bigard has admitted borrowing parts of the song from a composition called "Dreamy Blues" by his teacher Lorenzo Tio. [34] The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish, who then sold them to Mills's publishing company for a ...
For a list of the core jazz standards, see the following lists by decade: . Before 1920; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s and later; For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards and tunes which have been covered by multiple artists, see the List of jazz tunes
Elmore James was an American blues slide guitarist and singer who recorded from 1951 until 1963. His most famous song, "Dust My Broom", an electrified adaptation of a Robert Johnson tune, was his first hit and features one of the most identifiable slide guitar figures in blues. [2]
"After Hours" [4] is a song composed by Avery Parrish with lyrics by Robert Bruce and Buddy Feyne. Parrish's own hit instrumental version, featuring him on piano with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, was recorded on June 10, 1940. Lyrics were added later. "All Too Soon" [5] is a jazz ballad composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Carl Sigman.
Kenny G's tenth studio album The Moment was the most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 1996, spending the last 12 weeks of the year (and the first two of 1997) at number one. The UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling jazz and blues albums in the United Kingdom.