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Recommended jazz tune list
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I borrowed this list from an appendix to Mark Levine’s The Jazz Piano Book. The tunes shown in bold are some of the ones most commonly played. Levine called this list “Tunes to learn before you move to New York.” Alternately, this list could be called “Tunes to learn before you quit your day job.”
Ah-Leu-Cha
Airegin
All Blues
All God’s Chillun
All of Me
All of You
All the Things You Are
Alone Together
Along Came Betty
Anthropology
Ask Me Now
Au Privave
Autumn in New York
Autumn Leaves
Bag’s Groove
Beatrice
Beautiful Love
Bemsha Swing
Bessie’s Blues
Billie’s Bounce
Black Narcissus
Black Nile
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Blue in Green
Blue Monk
Blues for Alice
The Blues Walk
Body and Soul
Bolivia
But Beautiful
But Not for Me
Bye Bye Blackbird
Caravan
Ceora
Chelsea Bridge
Cherokee
Cheryl
Children of the Night
C Jam Clues
Come Rain or Come Shine
Con Alma
Confirmation
Countdown
Cousin Mary
Crisis
C.T.A.
Daahound
Days of Wine and Roses
Dearly Beloved
Dig
Dolphin Dance
Donna Lee
Doxy
Easy Living
Eighty One
Embraceable You
Epistrophy
Equinox
E.S.P.
Evidence
Falling in Love with Love
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
Footprints
Four
Freddie Freeloader
Freedom Jazz Dance
Georgia On My Mind
Giant Steps
Good Bait
Green Dolphin Street
Groovin’ High
Hackensack
Half Nelson
Have You Met Ms. Jones
Here’s That Rainy Day
Hi-Fly
Hot House
How Deep is the Ocean
How High the Moon
How Insensitive
I Can’t Get Started
I Could Write a Book
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If I Should Lose You
If I Were a Bell
If You Could See Me Now
I Got it Bad and that ain’t Good
I Hear a Rhapsody
I Got Rhythm
I’ll Remember April
I Love You
I Mean You
I’m Getting Sentimental over You
I’m Old Fashioned
Impressions
In A Mellowtone
In a Sentimental Mood
Indiana
Infant Eyes
Inner Urge
Invitation
In Walked Bud
In Your Own Sweet Way
I Remember Clifford
I Remember You
I Should Care
Isotope
Israel
It Could Happen to You
It Don’t Mean a Thing
I Thought about You
It’s You or No Onw
I Want to Talk about You
The Jitterbug Waltz
Jordu
Joshus
Joy Spring
Juju
Just Friends
Just One of those Things
Katrina Ballerina
Killer Joe
Lady Bird
Laura
Lazy Bird
Like Someone in Love
Little Sunflower
Love for Sale
Lover Come Back to Me
Loverman
Lush Life
Mack the Knife
Mahjong
Maiden Voyage
Manteca
Milestones (new)
Mr. Clean
Misterioso
Misty
Moment’s Notice
Monk’s Mood
Mr. P.C.
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My One and Only Love
My Romance
My Shining Hour
Naima
Nardis
Nefertiti
Nica’s Dream
Night and Day
Night Dreamer
The Night Has 1000 Eyes
A Night in Tunisia
Now’s the Time
Old Folks
Oleo
Once I Loved
One Note Samba
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Ornithology
Our Delight
Out of Nowhere
Over the Rainbow
Parisian Thoroughfare
Passion Dance
Peace
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Pensativa
Pent-up House
Perdido
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Prelude to a Kiss
Recordame
Rhythm-a-Ning
‘Round Midnight
Ruby My Dear
St. Thomas
Salt Peanuts
Sandu
Scrapple from the Apple
Search for Peace
Secret Love
Serenity
Seven Steps to Heaven
The Shadow of your Smile
Skylark
Smoke Gets in your Eyes
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
Solar
Someday my Prince will Come
Someone to Watch Over Me
Some Other Blues
Song For My Father
The Song is You
Sonnymoon for Two
Sophisticated Lady
Soul Eyes
So What
Speak Low
Speak No Evil
Spring is Here
Stablemates
Stardust
Star Eyes
Stella by Starlight
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Straight No Chaser
Strollin’
Sugar
Summertime
Take the “A” Train
Tangerine
Tenor Madness
The Theme
There is no Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
Things ain’t what they used to Be
Think On Me
Tune-Up
Unit Sevel
Up Jumped Spring
Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Valse Hot
Walkin’
Wave
The Way you Look Tonight
You’re a Weaver of Dreams
Well, you Needn’t
What is this Thing Called Love
What’s New?
[When I Fall in Love]
When Lights are Low
When Sunny Gets Blue
Whisper Not
Wild Flower
Windows
Witchcraft
Witch Hunt
Without a Song
Woody ‘n You
Yardbird Suite
Yes or No
You Don’t Know What Love Is
You Know I Care
You’re My Everything
You Say You Care
You Stepped Out of a Dream
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