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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.
The song's driving rhythm, basically the first bar of a 3 2 clave, came to have widespread use in jazz comping and musicians still reference it by name. [4] Harmonically, the song features a five-chord ragtime progression (I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I). [5] Recordings of The Charleston from 1923 entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [6]
Smith's recording with her Jazz Hounds has been called the earliest genuine jazz recording by a black ensemble. [110] Bix Beiderbecke recorded an influential version in 1927. [109] Darius Milhaud used the song in his ballet La création du monde. [111] 1919 – "Someday Sweetheart". [112] Jazz song credited to John Spikes. [113]
Waldron frequently performed the song for albums, often with tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin (who also played on the Left Alone album). Versions are included in Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1971), Like Old Times (1976), Left Alone '86 (1986), Into the Light (1989), My Dear Family (1993), and Left Alone Revisited (2002).
The song's I-vi-ii-V7 chord progression has been used in countless jazz compositions, and is commonly known as "rhythm changes". [20] George Gershwin's last concert composition, Variations on "I Got Rhythm" was based on this song. [21] "Lazy River", [4] [22] a song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin, [23] was a hit for the Mills Brothers in ...
Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke to dance Charleston. The Charleston is a dance named after the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina.The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called "The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson, which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade.
The smallest pitch difference between notes (in most Western music) (e.g. F–F#). Jazz, blues, and various non-Western musics use quarter tones, a smaller subdivision of pitch. session musician, session player, or session man. In jazz and popular music, this refers to a highly skilled, experienced musician who can be hired for recording sessions.
A remix (called a "Re-Recording") was done for "Jazz (We've Got)" and was featured on The Love Movement and Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller. "Your mic & my mic, come on, yo, no equal”, a Q-Tip line on "Jazz (We've Got) (Re-Recording)" can be heard in the chorus on "No Equal" by The Beatnuts from their 1993 EP Intoxicated Demons: The EP.