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This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
The song had lyrics written by Jon Hendricks who has recorded it with the composer in Monk's album titled Underground (Columbia Records). "Lady Bird" [13] [140] [141] is a jazz composition by Tadd Dameron. "Nature Boy" [13] [16] [142] [143] is a song written by eden ahbez.
Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8. The New Real Book, Volume III. Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X. The Real Book, Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4. The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4234-2452-9. The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4. The Real ...
In 1995, Hal Leonard began distributing Homespun Music Instruction instructional video and audio materials. In 1997, Hal Leonard and Music Sales Group founded SheetMusicDirect.com, [3] the world's first website for digital sheet music and guitar tablature. [citation needed] In 2004, Hal Leonard acquired Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. [4]
The song is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. [2] "But Not for Me" [10] was introduced by Ginger Rogers in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. It was composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song failed to achieve significant pop success, charting only once in 1942.
See also the list of cool jazz and West Coast musicians for further detail. Hard bop, an extension of bebop (or "bop") music that incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing, developed in the mid-1950s, partly in response to the vogue for cool jazz in the early 1950s. The ...
[2] [5] [187] Jazz fusion composition by Joe Zawinul. Originally released on Heavy Weather by Weather Report, it is instantly recognizable by bassist Jaco Pastorius' introduction using artificial harmonics, and notes sung by him by the end of the song. The tune was one of the biggest hits of the jazz fusion movement. [188]
Sarah Vaughan. Begone Dull Care is an animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, giving a visual presentation of Oscar Peterson's jazz music.; My Foolish Heart was a film starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward that was panned by the critics, but the title song "My Foolish Heart", written by singer Billie Holiday and sung by Martha Mears, was a hit and became a jazz standard.