essential jazz standards part 3
Here’s my final list of suggestions for your jazz repertoire. These are all essential jazz standards that you should become familiar with.
Although I’ve listed 14 tunes, I suggest you at least learn What Is This Thing Called Love, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise and Yesterdays.
For more of a challenge, take a look at Stella By Starlight.
So here’s the final list of essential jazz standards to add to your repertoire. If you wish to catch up with previous lists, scroll down the page.
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Lover Man
Composer: Jimmy Davis
Date: 1941
Form: AABA
Usual key: F
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My Funny Valentine
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Date: 1937
Form: ABC
Usual key: C minor
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My Romance
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Date: 1935
Form: AB
Usual key: Bb
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Perdido
Composer: Juan Tizol
Date: 1942
Form: AABA
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Secret Love
Composer: Sammy Fain
Date: 1953
Form: AABA
Usual key: Eb
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Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
Composer: Sigmund Romberg
Form: AABA
Usual key: C minor
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Star Eyes
Composer: Gene De Paul
Date: 1943
Form: AABA
Usual key: Eb
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Stella By Starlight
Composer: Victor Young
Date: 1944
Form: ABC
Usual key: Eb
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There Will Never Be Another You
Composer: Harry Warren
Date: 1942
Form: ABAC
Usual key: Eb
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What Is This Thing Called Love
Composer: Cole Porter
Date: 1929
Form: AABA
Usual key: C
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What’s New
Composer: Bob Haggart
Date: 1939
Form: AABA
Usual key: C
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Yesterdays
Composer: Jerome Kern
Date: 1933
Form: AB
Usual key: D minor
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You Don’t Know What Love Is
Composer: Gene De Paul
Date: 1941
Form: AABA
Usual key: F minor
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You’ve Changed
Composer: Carl Fisher
Date: 1941
Form: AABA
Usual key: Eb
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You can find my full list of suggested jazz repertoire in
Learn Jazz Piano, book 3.
Here is the link to all 4 learn jazz piano eBooks
