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Cool thread, glad I had this idea!
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03-14-2017 06:11 PM
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yes on robbins and bernies tune
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A couple of favorites from Chet Baker's repertoire:
- My ideal
- Travelin' light (also a great version from Billie Holiday)
- I've never been in love before (also terrific version from Barney Kessel)
- The more I see you
- The touch of your lips (also a great cover by Doug Raney)
- Blame it on my youth (see also Nat King Cole version)
- I fall in love too easily
Etc.
Then I realize I have cited mostly ballads.
Cheers
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Originally Posted by Takemitsu
I do it as a rhumba.
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For Minors Only, by Jimmy Heath. Chet Baker did a great version with Doug Raney and Niels Pedersen.
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I'm Beginning To See The Light
I'm Confessing
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Topsy
Someday Sweetheart
Poor Butterfly
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Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Love the melody, the changes, the sentiment!
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I Should Care (Nice old Ballad)
Ceora (Bossa)
wiz (Howie)
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Speaking of Kenny Burrell (what a singing voice), how about I'll Buy You A Star?
First, marvellous Mathis, who sings the verse (before showing what Al Jarreau might have sounded with a Big Band back in the '60s), and then brilliant Burrell (first track):
Last edited by destinytot; 03-15-2017 at 04:59 AM.
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Lets Get Lost. I play/sing that one pretty often. I had an area jazz fan tell me he had never heard anyone do it. He's probably been in a jazz club, private event or festival once per week for the last 45 years.
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Reaching for the Moon - beautiful melody - the finest ballad Irving Berlin ever wrote, and deserves much more exposure than it gets.
Ella Fitzgerald - Reaching For The Moon (High Quality - Remastered) - YouTube
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Tell you what Friends, with all these wonderful songs... I'm getting that feeling that I was born in the wrong Era... AGAIN!
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Two of my favorite not-often-called standards:
"Moment's Notice" (JColtrane)
"Upper Manhattan Medical Group" (BStrayhorn)
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Originally Posted by RonD
Tommy was a jazz pianist, who wrote a musical called "The Nervous Set" (which Spring Can Really hang You up the Most came from), and the cast recording features Kenny Burrell on guitar!
Unfortunately, the show bombed on Broadway, and closed after only a small number of showings.
There weren't any other tunes as good as the previously mentioned two anyway.
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Definitely off the beaten path; for a jazz gig anyways:
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Sonny Rollins recorded that, and Tim Lerch has it on YouTube.
And here it is on a Slaman.Last edited by sgosnell; 03-15-2017 at 07:46 PM.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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Hey Stardust is the tune this month but Hoagy also wrote Skylark, a really nice tune.
David
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(Singing this with a big band in May) A Lot of Lovin' To Do
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This spring tunes. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and You Must Believe In Spring.
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I like "When Lights Are Low." It used to be done a lot, I think, but I don't hear it so much anymore. Love this version.
Miles did a classic version too----may have been so good that others steered clear....
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Bacharach's The April Fools (I think perhaps in a hard-driven 3/4).
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Jimmy Van Heusen wrote lots of killer tunes (It Could Happen To You, Darn That Dream, But Beautiful, Like Someone in Love, Here's That Rainy Day, etc.). I heard Vic Juris play this lesser-known gem at a Bar Next Door gig last year:
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