Beginning Jazz Tune List
This list is a starting place. Often I see Jazz tune lists and I get overwhelmed. This list is an attempt to list songs from easiest to more difficult.
Blues (or Blues-like)
- C Jam Blues
- Night Train
- Sonnymoon for Two
- Watermelon Man
- Cantaloupe Island
- Blue Monk
- Summertime
- Moanin’
- The Preacher
(vi) ii V7 I
- Tune Up
- How High the Moon
- Satin Doll
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Black Orpheus
- I Could Write a Book
- Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
- Take the ‘A’ Train
- I’ve Got Rhythm
- All of Me
Circle of 5ths
- Autumn Leaves
- All the Things You Are
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Bluesette
Modal
- Take Five
- Chameleon
- Footprints
- So What
- Impressions
Good to know (other songs I like)
- St. Thomas
- The Girl from Ipanema
- My Funny Valentine
- Blue Bossa
- Body and Soul
- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
- Georgia on my mind
- A Foggy Day
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free