Jazz Repertoire: essential standards part 3
Building your jazz repertoire: part 3 of essential standards
Here’s my final list of suggestions for your jazz repertoire. These are all 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. 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
Book 3
