The Jazz Standards

Ted Gioia is a pianist, critic, scholar, historian and educator. He is author of 11 books, including The History of Jazz and Delta Blues—both honored by the New York Times on their list of 100 notable books of the year. His three books on the social history of music—Work Songs, Healing Songs, and Love Songs—have each been honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Gioia holds degrees from Stanford and Oxford, and previously served on the faculty of Stanford's Department of Music. Praised as one of the leading music historians of our day, Gioia is a preeminent guide to songs of the past, present, and future.

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Introduction

After You've Gone

Ain't Misbehavin'

Airegin

Alfie

All Blues

All of Me

All of You

All the Things You Are

Almost Like Being in Love

Alone Together

Along Came Betty

Angel Eyes

April in Paris

Autumn in New York

Autumn Leaves

Bags' Groove

Basin Street Blues

Beale Street Blues

Bemsha Swing

Billie's Bounce

Birdland

Blue Bossa

Blue in Green

Blue Monk

Blue Moon

Blue Skies

Blues in the Night

Bluesette

Body and Soul

But Beautiful

But Not for Me

Bye Bye Blackbird

C Jam Blues

Cantaloupe Island

Caravan

Chelsea Bridge

Cherokee

A Child is Born

Come Rain or Come Shine

Come Sunday

Con Alma

Confirmation

Corcovado

Cotton Tail

Darn That Dream

Days of Wine and Roses

Desafinado

Dinah

Django

Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans

Dolphin Dance

Donna Lee

Don't Blame Me

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)

Easy Living

Easy to Love

Embraceable You

Emily

Epistrophy

Everything Happens to Me

Evidence

Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

Exactly Like You

Falling in Love with Love

Fascinating Rhythm

Fly Me to the Moon

A Foggy Day

Footprints

Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?

Georgia on My Mind

Ghost of a Chance

Giant Steps

The Girl from Ipanema

God Bless the Child

Gone with the Wind

Good Morning Heartache

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Groovin' High

Have You Met Miss Jones?

Here's That Rainy Day

Honeysuckle Rose

Hot House

How Deep Is the Ocean?

How High the Moon

How Insensitive

How Long Has This Been Going On?

I Can't Get Started

I Can't Give You Anything but Love

I Cover the Waterfront

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

I Fall in Love Too Easily

I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)

I Got Rhythm

I Hear a Rhapsody

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

I Love You

I Mean You

I Only Have Eyes for You

I Remember Clifford

I Should Care

I Surrender, Dear

I Thought about You

I Want to Be Happy

If I Should Lose You

If You Could See Me Now

I'll Remember April

I'm in the Mood for Love

Impressions

In a Mellow Tone

In a Sentimental Mood

In Your Own Sweet Way

Indiana

Invitation

It Could Happen to You

It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

It Had to Be You

It Might As Well Be Spring

It Never Entered My Mind

I've Found a New Baby

The Jitterbug Waltz

Joy Spring

Just Friends

Just One of Those Things

Just You, Just Me

King Porter Stomp

Lady Bird

The Lady is a Tramp

Lament

Laura

Lester Leaps In

Like Someone in Love

Limehouse Blues

Liza

Lonely Woman

Lotus Blossom

Love for Sale

Love is Here to Stay

Lover

Lover, Come Back to Me

Lover Man

Lullaby of Birdland

Lush Life

Mack the Knife

Maiden Voyage

The Man I Love

Manhã de Carnaval

Mean to Me

Meditation

Memories of You

Milestones

Misterioso

Misty

Moanin'

Moment's Notice

Mood Indigo

Moonlight in Vermont

Moose the Mooche

More Than You Know

Muskrat Ramble

My Favorite Things

My Foolish Heart

My Funny Valentine

My Heart Stood Still

My Old Flame

My One and Only Love

My Romance

Naima

Nardis

Nature Boy

The Nearness of You

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Night and Day

Night in Tunisia

Night Train

Now's the Time

Nuages

Oh, Lady Be Good!

Old Folks

Oleo

On a Clear Day

On Green Dolphin Street

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Once I Loved

One Note Samba

One o'Clock Jump

Ornithology

Out of Nowhere

Over the Rainbow

Peace

The Peacocks

Pennies from Heaven

Perdido

Poinciana

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Prelude to a Kiss

Rhythm-a-ning

'Round Midnight

Royal Garden Blues

Ruby, My Dear

St. James Infirmary Blues

St. Louis Blues

St. Thomas

Satin Doll

Scrapple from the Apple

Secret Love

The Shadow of Your Smile

Skylark

Smile

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

So What

Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise

Solar

Solitude

Some of These Days

Someday My Prince Will Come

Someone to Watch Over Me

Song for My Father

The Song Is You

Sophisticated Lady

Soul Eyes

Speak Low

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Spring Is Here

Star Dust

Star Eyes

Stella by Starlight

Stolen Moments

Stompin' at the Savoy

Stormy Weather

Straight, No Chaser

Struttin' with Some Barbecue

Summertime

Sweet Georgia Brown

'S Wonderful

Take Five

Take the A Train

Tea for Two

Tenderly

There Is No Greater Love

There Will Never Be Another You

These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

They Can't Take That Away from Me

Things Ain't What They Used to Be

Tiger Rag

Time after Time

Tin Roof Blues

The Very Thought of You

Waltz for Debby

Watermelon Man

Wave

The Way You Look Tonight

Well, You Needn't

What Is This Thing Called Love?

What's New?

When the Saints Go Marching In

Whisper Not

Who Can I Turn To?

Willow Weep for Me

Yardbird Suite

Yesterdays

You Don't Know What Love Is

You Go to My Head

You Stepped Out of a Dream

You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To