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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.
Hal Leonard has partnered with the Jazz Education Network [12] to offer the Hal Leonard Collegiate Scholarship, which was awarded to Tanner Guss in 2017. [ 13 ] In 2023, Hal Leonard was acquired by Muse Group , owners of other sheet music-related products such as MuseScore , Ultimate Guitar , and StaffPad .
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 ...
2019: Theme from New York New York — for six hands (Hal Leonard) 2018: Big Apple Jazz (Hal Leonard) 2017: Pop Duets (Hal Leonard) 2015: First Lessons in Piano Improv (Hal Leonard) 2015: Jazz Hits (Hal Leonard) 2015: Myths and Monsters (Hal Leonard) 2014: Jazz Band Pianist (Hal Leonard) 2014: Double Agent (Hal Leonard) 2013: Conga Lion (Hal ...
The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-506082-9. Stanton, Scott (2003). The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7434-6330-0. Studwell, William Emmett; Baldin, Mark (2000). The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles. Haworth Press.
2000: Jim Hall: Star Licks (Hal Leonard) ISBN 0793524415; 2001: Jazz Casual: Art Farmer & Jim Hall VHS (Rhino) from January 1964 Ralph J. Gleason “Jazz Casual” TV appearance - reissued on DVD in 2003 by Idem with Gerry Mulligan Quartet video; 2006: Jim Hall: Instructional DVD for Guitar DVD Hal Leonard ISBN 1423403304
Some of the tunes listed were instant hits and quickly became well-known standards, while others were popularized later. The time of the most influential recordings of a song, where appropriate, is indicated on the list. From its conception at the change of the twentieth century, jazz was music intended for dancing.