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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.
"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.
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
It emerged in New York City, as a result of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white jazz musicians and black bebop musicians, and it dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s. The starting point were a series of singles on Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950 of a nonet led by trumpeter Miles Davis , collected and released first on a ...
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 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. [7] Alfred Publishing Co. has several Real Books. [8] Sher Music Co. publishes The New Real Book, in 3 volumes. [9] The collection of tunes differs from that of the original Real Book. This edition offers some of the same songs, with different transcriptions and ...
1967 in music: Standards: List of post-1950 jazz standards: ... Hal Leonard. 2006. ... This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; ...
The song rose to the charts twice in 1932; Russ Columbo's recording with Leonard Joy's Orchestra peaked at number fourteen, as did a rendition by Ben Selvin and His Orchestra later the same year. Popularized in modern jazz by Charlie Parker 's 1950 recording, the song became popular among West Coast cool jazz artists in the mid-1950s.