Jazz standards – the must list.

Harold Arlen

 Make It One for My Baby (And One More for the Road).... sintra (Young at Heart)
    1.”Over the Rainbow”
    2.”It’s Only a Paper Moon”, and with Ted Koehler,
    3.”Stormy Weather”,
    4.”I’ve Got the World on a String”,
    5.”I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues”)

Irving Berlin
    1.”White Christmas”
    2. “Always”
    3. “Blue Skies”
    4. “Cheek to Cheek”
    5. “Puttin’ on the Ritz”

Hoagy Carmichael
    1.”Stardust”
    2. “Georgia on My Mind”
    3. “Lazy River”
    4. “The Nearness of You”
    5. “Skylark”

Duke Ellington
    1.”In a Sentimental Mood”
    2. “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”
    3.”Satin Doll” (with Billy Strayhorn)
    4. “Mood Indigo”
    5. “Sophisticated Lady”
    6. “I’m Beginning to See the Light”)

George and Ira Gershwin
    1.”Someone to Watch Over Me”
    2. “‘S Wonderful”
    3. “Summertime”
    4.”Embraceable You”
    5. “I Got Rhythm”
    6. “Fascinating Rhythm”
    7. “The Man I Love”
    8. “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
    9. “Our Love Is Here to Stay”

Jerome Kern
    1.”Ol’ Man River”
    2. “The Way You Look Tonight”
    3.”All the Things You Are”
    4. “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

Johnny Mercer
    1.”One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”
    2. “That Old Black Magic”
    3. “Blues in the Night”
    4. “Come Rain or Come Shine”
    5. “Jeepers Creepers”

Cole Porter
    1.”Night and Day”
    2. “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
    3. “Begin the Beguine”
    4. “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”
    5. “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
    6. “Love for Sale”
    7. “You’re the Top”
    8. “Just One of Those Things”,
    9. “I Get a Kick Out of You”
    10. “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”
    11. “In the Still of the Night”
    12.”It’s De-Lovely”
    13.”My Heart Belongs to Daddy”)

Rodgers and Hart
    1.”Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”
    2. “My Romance”
    3. “Have You Met Miss Jones?”
    4. “My Funny Valentine”
    5. “Blue Moon”
    6.”The Lady Is a Tramp”
    7. “Thou Swell”
    8. “Lover”
    9. “Where or When”
    10. “This Can’t Be Love”

Rodgers and Hammerstein
    1.”Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’”
    2. “People Will Say We’re in Love”
    3. “It Might as Well Be Spring”
    4. “If I Loved You”
    5. “Some Enchanted Evening”
    6. “Shall We Dance?”
    7. “My Favorite Things”

Jimmy Van Heusen
    1. “All the Way”
    2. “But Beautiful”
    3.  “Come Fly with Me”,
    4.”Imagination”

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