List of post-1950 jazz standards explained
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes tunes written in or after the 1950s that are considered standards by at least one major fake book publication or reference work.
Modal jazz recordings, such as Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, became popular in the late 1950s. Popular modal standards include Davis's "All Blues" and "So What" (both 1959), John Coltrane's "Impressions" (1963) and Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" (1965). Later, Davis's "second great quintet", which included saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock, recorded a series of highly acclaimed albums in the mid-to-late 1960s. Standards from these sessions include Shorter's "Footprints" (1966) and Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance" (1966).
In Brazil, a new style of music called bossa nova evolved in the late 1950s. Based on Brazilian samba as well as jazz, bossa nova was championed by João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá. Gilberto and Stan Getz started a bossa nova craze in the United States with their 1963 album Getz/Gilberto. Among the genre's songs that are now considered standards are Bonfá's "Manhã de Carnaval" (1959), Marcos Valle's "Summer Samba" (1966), and numerous Jobim songs, including "Desafinado" (1959), "The Girl from Ipanema" (1962) and "Corcovado" (1962).
The jazz fusion movement fused jazz with other musical styles, most famously funk and rock. Its golden age was from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. Top fusion artists, such as Weather Report, Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, achieved cross-over popularity, although public interest in the genre faded at the turn of the 1980s. Fusion's biggest hits, Hancock's "Chameleon" (1973) and Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" (1977), have been covered numerous times thereafter and are sometimes considered modern jazz standards.
1950–54
1955–59
1960–64
1965–69
1970s and beyond
Bibliography
Reference works
- Book: Rosenthal, David H. . Hard Bop: Jazz and black music 1955–1965 . Oxford University Press US . 1993 . 0-19-508556-6.
Fake books
- Book: The New Real Book, Volume I. 1988. Sher Music. 0-9614701-4-3 . refTheNewRealBookVol1. Real Book#Other Real Books.
- Book: The New Real Book, Volume II . 1991 . Sher Music . 0-9614701-7-8 . refTheNewRealBookVol2.
- Book: The New Real Book, Volume III. 1995. Sher Music. 1-883217-30-X . refTheNewRealBookVol3.
- Book: The Real Book, Volume I . 6th . 2004 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06038-4 . refTheRealBookVol1. Real Book#History of the 'new' Real Book .
- Book: The Real Book, Volume II . 2nd . 2007 . Hal Leonard . 978-1-4234-2452-9 . refTheRealBookVol2.
- Book: The Real Book, Volume III . 2nd . 2006 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06136-4 . refTheRealBookVol3.
- Book: The Real Jazz Book . Warner Bros . 978-91-85041-36-7 . refTheRealJazzBook.
- Book: The Real Vocal Book, Volume I . 2006 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06080-5 . refTheRealVocalBookVol1. Real Book#History of the 'new' Real Book .
Notes and References
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/ifiwereabell.htm If I Were a Bell
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 194
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/auprivave.htm Au Privave
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 37
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 55
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 26
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/nighttrain.htm Night Train
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 304
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/straightnochaser.htm Straight No Chaser
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 386
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/bagsgroove.htm Bag's Groove
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 30
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/lullabyofbirdland.htm Lullaby of Birdland
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 256
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/myoneandonlylove.htm My One and Only Love
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 288
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/thatsall.htm That's All
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 363
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/whenifallinlove.htm When I Fall in Love
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 439
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/heresthatrainyday.htm Here's That Rainy Day
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 175
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/jordu.htm Jordu
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 227
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 175
- Book: The Real Book. 2004. Hal Leonard Pub. Corp.. Milwaukee, WI. 978-0634060380. 273. 6th.
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/satindoll.htm Satin Doll
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 349
- Listed in New Real Book, Volume I
- Listed in The Real Jazz Book
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/airegin.htm Airegin
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 13
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/allofyou.htm All of You
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 21
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/bluemonk.htm Blue Monk
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 52
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/django.htm Django
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 120
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/doxy.htm Doxy
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 111
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/flymetothemoon.htm Fly Me to the Moon (in Other Words)
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 135
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 106
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/four.htm Four
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 149
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/joyspring.htm Joy Spring
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 229
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/misty.htm Misty
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 277
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/oleo.htm Oleo
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 309
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/solar.htm Solar
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 363
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/inyourownsweetway.htm In Your Own Sweet Way
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/canadiansunset.htm Canadian Sunset
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/conalma.htm Con Alma
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 84
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/nicasdream.htm Nica's Dream
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 299
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 255
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/stthomas.htm St. Thomas
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 339
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/waltzfordebby.htm Waltz for Debby
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 432
- The New Real Book, Volume II
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/whispernot.htm Whisper Not
- The Real Book, Volume II
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 54
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/irememberclifford.htm I Remember Clifford
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 192
- Ratliff, Ben (December 06, 2002) "Mal Waldron, 77, Composer Of the Jazz Ballad 'Soul Eyes'" New York Times
- Listed in The Real Vocal Book
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 74
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/milestones.htm Milestones
- The Real Book, Volume III, p. 277
- Morrison, Nick (October 13, 2009) "Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger, Jazz Mentor" npr music. Accessed July 31, 2013.
- Web site: Vishnu. Amazon UK.
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/afroblue.htm Afro Blue
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 11
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/allblues.htm All Blues
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 18
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-8/thebestisyettocome.htm The Best Is Yet to Come
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/blueingreen.htm Blue in Green
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 51
- See page 20 of the Fall 1993 issue of Letter from Evans (http://www2.selu.edu/orgs/34skid/html/23.pdf) where Earl Zindars says "I know that it is [100-percent Bill's] because he wrote it over at my pad where I was staying in East Harlem, 5th floor walkup, and he stayed until 3 o'clock in the morning playing these six bars over and over."
- https://www.npr.org/2010/10/08/92185496/bill-evans-on-piano-jazz 35m30s, On being asked about the issue by the interviewer (Marian McPartland), Evans said "The truth is I did [write the music]... I don't want to make a federal case out of it, the music exists, and Miles is getting the royalties"
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/desafinado.htm Desafinado
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 108
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 151
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/giantsteps.htm Giant Steps
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 157
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 121
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/goodbyeporkpiehat.htm Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/afelicidade.htm A Felicidade
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/killerjoe.htm Killer Joe
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 229
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 179
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 49
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 276
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/myfavoritethings.htm My Favorite Things
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 285
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/naima.htm Naima
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 293
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 238
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 306
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/sidewinder.htm Sidewinder
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 355
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/sowhat.htm So What
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 364
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/takefive.htm Take Five
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 397
- [At the Half Note Cafe]
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/impressions.htm Impressions
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 205
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 154
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/onceiloved.htm Once I Loved
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 311
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/onenotesamba.htm One Note Samba
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 314
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-8/stolenmoments.htm Stolen Moments
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 384
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-3/corcovado.htm Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 335
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/daysofwineandroses.htm Days of Wine and Roses
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/meditation.htm Meditation
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 266
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 425
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 50
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 56
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/thegirlfromipanema.htm The Girl from Ipanema
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 158
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/howinsensitive.htm How Insensitive
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 181
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 204
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 305
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 337
- The Real Book, Volume III, p. 360
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 14
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/watermelonman.htm Watermelon Man
- The Real Book, Volume III, p. 429
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 76
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 214
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 177
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 230
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 260
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 196
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 373
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 335
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 72
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 76
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/dindi.htm Dindi
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 105
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/dolphindance.htm Dolphin Dance
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 119
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 108
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 135
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 128
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 150
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 261
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 229
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 378
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/footprints.htm Footprints
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 144
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 264
- The New Real Book, Volume III, p. 215
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 262
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 362
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 152
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 110
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 244
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-8/triste.htm Triste
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 417
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 431
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 466
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 432
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 338
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 254
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 339
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 100
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 79
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 268
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/sendintheclowns.htm Send in the Clowns
- The Real Book, Volume I, p. 41
- The New Real Book, Volume II, p. 20
- http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/thepeacocks.htm at jazzstandards.com
- The Real Book, Volume II, p. 46
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