Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Repertoire

Here are some standard tunes that make for a good basic list. These are among the 200 (or so) tunes that a jazz guitar player should have a handle on. (But starting with 10 is just fine! :) . You will discover which ones you like to play, and you can design your own repertoire according to your own taste.

Some of the standards you should investigate

Jazz/Blues
Freddie the Freeloader *
Blues w/Everything
All Blues
Blue Monk
Straight No Chaser
Now's the Time
Billie's Bounce
Blues for Alice
Footprints


Standards
Summertime
Autumn Leaves
All of Me
Georgia
Honeysuckle Rose
My Romance
Sunny Side of the Street
Ain't Misbehavin'
Satin Doll
Night and Day
Fly me to the Moon
As Time Goes By
Misty
Softly as a morning sunrise

Jazz
Scrapple from the Apple
Green Dolphin Street
How High the Moon
Stella by Starlight
All the Things You Are
Round Midnight
Rhythm changes [wikipedia]
    1. I Got Rhythm
    2. Anthropology
    3. Oleo
    4. The Bridge (B section) appearing in many tunes,


Modal
So What

Latin Jazz
Black Orpheus
Girl from Ipanema
Wave
any Jobim tune
Blue Bossa

Other
Minor Swing

Funkin/Modern/Smooth/Groove/Cool
Watermelon Man
Work Song
Sunny
Masquerade
Mercy
Josie
some George Benson - Affirmation
some Wes Montgomery

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