What's your favorite jazz standard?

Speak Low. Weill was a special musician and Nash's lyrics were perfect.

Do you recommend any particular versions r1? I'm only familiar with Billie Holiday's

I am very sentimental, so my favorite is Lotte Lenya's version. Singing her husband's song after he died and after all they went through together? I really get emotional thinking about it. But her voice isn't for everyone. Sarah Vaughan does a wonderful version.

I don’t know much about music, but this was my parents’ song and I associate it with jazz, though it might more properly be called Big Band(?).

More traditional jazz might be Dinah Washington’s version of I Got You Under My Skin.

Great choice, r4. I've recently been researching best-selling hits of the 1940s; "Frenesi" was very popular in late 1940/early 1941

Here's a later jazz cover

R1 I remember seeing Beverly D'Angelo doing a vocal version of Stardust on some late night talk show when I was a kid, and being surprised that she was a singer. I was intrigued by the song, but wasn't sure what kind of music it was.

April in Paris, Ella Fitzgerald, please

r7 there are so many good covers of Stardust.

Here's another favorite. The opening bars ... just beautiful:

Another favorite. One of the most covered standards in jazz history:

Another favorite

Stardust. My favorite song, ever. Pure poetry. Soaring music. Music by Hoagy Carmichael and Lyrics by Mitchell Parish (1927).

Two great versions - probably the two greatest, and I'd be hard pressed to pick one over the other - are by Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole.

Johnny's is below. (It shows a picture of Natalie Cole but she's not on this recording, though she has also recorded Stardust.)

Beautiful, r12. Thank you!

It might seem almost obligatory but I always return to this standard. Something about the time signature gets me.

"Erna Does Scat"

I like what I am linking to. It's organic and unaffected. Downright turns me on.

Dusty Springfield also does just the finest rendition of "Peel Me A Grape" I've ever heard. She does this coy thing with her vocals which is both sultry and almost comedic in a way. It's very creative but I can only link to the one thing so here she is with Mel Torme just sitting down alongside him on a piano bench owning Jazz while wallowing rhythm of it all.

Love this one. Didn't know Benny Goodman had a popular cover of it:

My choice for Stardust is Nat King Cole.

For song, so many . . . but "Laura" is way up there.

"The Way You Look Tonight" is my favorite, though I there's never been a version I think is as good as the song itself. I first heard it on a Lettermen album of my mother's, and I would mimic that version while singing it to my cat Rollo. Eventually, I heard versions by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Fred Astaire, and later, Michael Bublé.

I like the boppiness of Sinatra's version, but it doesn't really go with what's in my heart when I think of the person the song came to remind me of in adulthood.

Tony Bennett matches my mood when I want to remember that guy (Scott). It's sweet and sincere, which is what I'm going for, though it sounds to me as if it's being sung to someone he knows he's never going to see again, which is what happened with Scott. I had no idea I'd never see him again after that night. We didn't break up. I moved. The next time I saw him, it was his name on an AIDS quilt panel.

I like Fred Astaire's version, too, but his subtext in the movie has everything to do with Penny, his "dame," in what looks like a screwball musical comedy, Swing Time.

I didn't like Ella Fitzgerald's version. I have never really liked her creamy voice. And Bublé, well, he's Bublé.

And today, I found a slow version by Sinatra I like a lot. But I'm still gonna go with Tony Bennett.

Stella by Starlight

Grappelli had a great cover of Stardust. Really captures the essence of the melody

Anita O'Day's amazing set at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958, singing "Tea for Two" and "Sweet Georgia Brown."

The perfection of cool jazz from someone who already had a life's career before stepping onto the stage smacked out of her head and in absolute control.

[quote]Tony Bennett matches my mood when I want to remember that guy (Scott). It's sweet and sincere, which is what I'm going for, though it sounds to me as if it's being sung to someone he knows he's never going to see again, which is what happened with Scott. I had no idea I'd never see him again after that night. We didn't break up. I moved. The next time I saw him, it was his name on an AIDS quilt panel.

Thinking about this made me cry while I listened to the song.

R19 My favorite rendition of the song is Peggy Lee's 1942 recording, with Benny Goodman on clarinet and Mel Powell on that magical celeste.

The Ventures' classic Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.

Another best. The "previously unreleased" recording of Sarah Vaughan singing THE gold standard of "Lush Life," and that includes Billy Strayhorn's own set.

It balances the distance of an interpretation by a mature voice with the naïveté and weariness of a young adult kvetching. She sweetens it by conveying her awareness.

Another great cover of Stardust

Lush Life is a very difficult song to sing to achieve its layers of meaning and its challenging melody.

A French singer channels Ms. Tucker

I’d say “Skylark”; not linking to a recording because I’ll listen to just about anybody attempt that song.

r30 Betty Buckley has a lovely version on her album Much More (which isn't on YouTube, sadly)

Hoagy Carmichael and Michael Parrish were only in their 20s when they wrote Stardust.

Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington

"Skylark" is a gem and my favorite jazz standard

Ella singing "Someone to Watch over Me"

Perhaps oddly, Queen Latifah singing "Lush Life"

I love that one of the greatest jazz standards of all time was a (deceptively) sappy tune by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Kind of Blue.

"Tight Like This," Louis Armstrong.

Yes, r36, I wonder what it is about My Favorite Things that makes it so beloved by jazz musicians?

I adore Skylark too—god bless Johnny Mercer—but wonder if we have to shun it now because of the line "sad as a gypsy serenading the moon." (I wish I were kidding.)

I'm digging this cover of Blue and Sentimental

The lyrics are nice too

Growing up, my dad had a record titled “Norman Granz Jam Session” with the like a of Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster amongst others. One side of the record had a Gershwin Medley with each performer doing a solo for different Gershwin standards. One song was “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Charlie Shavers on trumpet.

I found on Spotify that Charlie Shavers did record the song on one of his albums, but it’s not the same as the version in this medley. I used to love that song because Charlie Shavers plays such a smooth trumpet, but I have not been able to find that medley online.

“Autumn Leaves”

Here's my favorite version of "Autumn Leaves" r44. I don't like a lot of Garner's stuff, but this is very beautiful and I think his style is well-suited for the melody:

Aw thanks R45. I’m like the poster above who is happy to listen to any version. Although Bob Dylan warbling it live once was enough for me.

Autumn Leaves

R14 - totally agree, Green Dolphin Street is up there too.

As far as standards go, I love Begin the Beguine, Where or When, Almost Like Being In Love, Witchcraft, Body and Soul... so, so many.

Seeing Errol Garner mentioned, I’m surprised no one has mentioned “Misty” yet.

Garner wrote the song, but many, many people have performed it. I do like his version though.

What’s your favorite rendition DLers?

My favorite cover of Misty. The little duet that starts around 3:15 is one of my favorite moments in all of jazz.

I too feel that "Stardust" is the best song written in the United States, vying with only "Summertime" by the Gershwins for that honor. My favorite version of "Stardust" is still the one by Nat King Cole, with his velvety voice and the lush accompaniment by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.

Put this on and watch the snow falling softly outside the window, or rain if not cold. The great John Coltrane, the great Miles Davis and the great pianist Bill Evans, all on one track.

He made it famous. I still think it's the best and purest version.

Johnny Mathis

Artie Shaw had a beautiful cover of Stardust

R51, the Gershwins did not write "Summertime"--George Gershwin wrote the music and DuBose Heyward wrote the lyric.

Autumn Leaves (in English): another exquisite lyric by Johnny Mercer.

Love the Mathis Misty, too, but also extremely fond of this lesser-known version.

"Exactly Like You" by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields.

Here's the original recording by Ruth Etting, but it's been covered by Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Sam Cooke, Dizzy Gillespie, Diana Krall, Willie Nelson...

Tin Tin Deo

The smooth Mister Chet Baker with My Funny Valentine. This performance is so intimate it's like he's singing right to you. And those couple of small downward runs are glorious. Plus word is he was packing!

My favorite cover of My Funny Valentine - Ben Webster

And for a different take on My Funny Valentine, and my personal favorite, Ms. Chaka Khan. I love when she uses her voice to emulate brass during the climax.

Blue and Sentimental has such a nice melody. I'm surprised more artists haven't covered it

Wrong thread!! ^

With These Hands

Les McCann

A live slower more mellow version.

I've always wondered why jazz musicians never attempted R and H's Out of My Dreams. It is such a complex interesting song with a fabulous melody. Jonathan Schwartz called it a cathedral and he was right.

Take Five, Dave Brubeck. What s wonderful snapshot of the times. This one transports you to a time and place! This seems like the "Downtown" that Petula Clark was going on about, amirite?

Here you go, r67. Karrin Allyson is one of my favorite current jazz singers. She did an entire R&H album.

Oops, sorry. It didn't take. But it's worth looking up.

Trying again.

Never Let Me Go

"Take Five" Dave Brubeck Quartet.

R61, Honestly, that certainly was an interesting rendition. What I want to know is, exactly what instrument was making that sound and which orifice was blowing it?

Then you're gonna hate this, r74!

Another favorite ... they really capture the Grappelli/Reinhardt sound

No matter what shit is happening in the world, things can't be all bad when music like this exists

Reinhardt's version was slightly more uptempo.

The phantom biopic of my life better be scored with the music of Grappelli/Reinhardt.

Coltrane - Naima

Caravan.

r79 I love Oscar Peterson's opening to Caravan here

[quote]Seeing Errol Garner mentioned, I’m surprised no one has mentioned “Misty” yet.

[quote]Garner wrote the song, but many, many people have performed it. I do like his version though.

[quote]What’s your favorite rendition DLers?

Ethel Merman's.

Now this is the real I'll see you in my dreams

Don't know about you..but man oh man have I been right there.

Often wondered if he could slay this so completely cause of Ava. Boy could we use Nelson Riddle & Co. about now.

And then we come to that Adonis Chet

r83 one of my favorite albums

Thanks R83, loved Billie too, but Frank's moves me. When men are so vulnerable & raw, gets me everytime.

And now to how a single piano can tear out your hear..Bill oh Bill truly a great!!

Another great cover of Blue and Sentimental.

I've always loved Ella Fitzgerald, so it's her Misty for me. And her Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.

And Dinah Washington, The Good Life.

I'm seldom not happy to hear Brubeck and "Take Five" in any of the recordings.

And when Carmen McRae takes on the lyrics! Wow!

"Someday My Prince Will Come" - Chet Baker with a trio in Copenhagen, 1979. He'd been through an extremely rough patch and was lucky he could still play trumpet at all, but I find this record very affecting.

Night and Day. I even liked ratfaced Bono"s version

Lennie Tristano - Line Up. Now that is jazz

Here Am I by Donald Byrd

R19, that one reminds me of a late lover, as well. As do so many others (“Crazy He Calls Me,” “Beyond the Sea,” “Stars Fell on Alabama,” etc etc). Thank you for your touching post which has me all melancholy this morning. And to the rest of you for such wonderful and knowledgeable suggestions.

Awwww r96.

You're welcome!

r93 I enjoy Helen Merrill's cover.

Here's my favorite cover of Someday My Prince Will Come. I especially love the second half (starting around 2:30)

R83 That's a masterpiece.

Wow, what a great thread! Jazz is so vast, so many things, such diversity in taste. Nice to dip in some old friends & some newbies to explore.

R43, I think I found it. Stay tuned.

Thi is a great thread!

One of my favorite standards. Christy is so underrated.

Has anyone else recorded this? Garland performed it on her TV show but it was done when she knew her show was being cancelled and she seems a bit off - like she hasn't fully committed to it. Had she performed it a few months earlier, it would have been the definitive version.

Exquisite melancholy in the heart of the swing era.

It's an ~17 minute 'song' called The Beast, R43.

All the different little solos fall under that one track on the album.

Wait that's not right, R43. Damn it I just had it. I will find it.

BALLAD MEDLEY is the name of the one long track with all the little tunes, R43.

r103, I recall that Garland never performed the song on-air, that there are videos of her in rehearsa, but it never happened. I hope I'm wrong.

But thanks for bringing Christie. to the table. She needs. to. be remembered.

Another favorite, and my favorite cover:

R108, you are not wrong. Garland attempted the song but didn't complete it satisfactorily and it was never shown on the air. Outtakes were released on the DVDs.

They Say It's Spring. Unrated, hardly sung Jazz Standard with great subtle lyrics. Blossom nails it.

I love Blossom's cover of Tea For Two

Warne marsh and Lee Konitz. One of the greatest jazz albums in the 100 years. Don't call yourself a jazz lover or jazz musician if this record isn't part of your DNA

Speaking of Donna Lee

Correction: Warne Marsh....One of the greatest jazz albums in the PAST100 years......Tierney does an excellent rendition too.

I love , love, love this thread & all who contributed!! Let's keep it going! Your great knowledge has been a font of goodness to me. Though a jazz fan for many a moon, you have schooled in in great new stuff. Claude Thornhill, Shirley Horn & many more..

PLEASE, PLEASE.. Keep em' coming.

With much gratitude to you al!!!

Glad you're enjoying this thread, r116!

Shirley Horn is my favorite jazz vocalist -- as she was Miles Davis's. She has so many good covers. Here's another favorite:

Billie's Don't Explain. She even wrote it. God felt like she was reading my life the first time I heard this.

"You know that I love you & what love endures"Right or wrong don't matter when you're with me. sweet" "My life is yours now, don't explain. ""You're my joy & pain."

I made an Apple playlist of every song I could find in this thread (almost all of them-- couldn't find the exact Grapelli songs or the O'Day at Newport Jazz versions, and a couple others, but I added songs by those artists anyway). I wish I could share it but it has my full name attached.

Does anyone know how to post a playlist without "baring all"?!

Love me some Peggy..

Dex Oh Dex!!

Anita

[r119], great idea! I might be able to create a public playlist on Spotify. Datalounge Jazz. Do you happen to already have an accessible complied list of the songs/pieces posted in this thread? It would save a lot of time.

Here' the Etta. Etta Jones

R123, I don't; I just went post by post adding the songs directly.

But if you are willing to make it happen I certainly can type one up and copy and paste it!

West End blues, this version in particular

Please Please make the list happen, before we lose this marvelous thread.

Here is a photo from A great Day in Harlem with photos of many of the great artists included here

[123] don’t worry about creating a list, but thank you. I’ll work on it tomorrow as I have the day off.

More great piano Marian McPartland

Alto Summit - Bird Solo starting at 1:11...Lee transcribed this solo from a December 1940 Jay McShann recording of "Honeysuckle Rose" 82 years ago. 82 fucking years ago!!!!Listen to it. It's as fresh and contemporary as if it were recorded last week. Also show Prez's influence over Bird.

Datalounge Jazz

Jazz standard?

I remember when this song came out, I kept singing I'll Remember over the chorus. I know there's only so many chord progressions in popular music, but it just seems a little too close to not be a re-write.

Yikes, wrong thread. lol

r131 you're my hero!

Love For Sale. Cole Porter.

Another underrated singer - the former Mrs. Jack Webb and Mrs. Bobby Troup.

And I love this song so much.

R 131...Thank you This is the real spirit of DL

I love Peggy Lee's cover of Them There Eyes

Early Anita swinging with Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge.

I have a DOWN BEAT from December 15, 1941 with the cover headline "Krupa in fistfight over Eldridge!" Krupa beat the shit out of some restaurant owner in York, Pa. who refused to allow the African-American Eldridge's admittance. Krupa was arrested, taken to jail and fined $10 and was released.

In my collection of DOWN BEATS from the early '40s are many such reports of racist policies against African-American performers.

Thank you, r108 & r110 for correcting my post and agreeing that Garland doesn't nail the song as she could - and should - have.

This is one of my favorite websites. It includes the history of the 1000-most recorded jazz standards in history. Great stuff!

From their entry on "Them There Eyes":

[quote]In American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, Alec Wilder, calls “Them There Eyes” a “jazz musician’s favorite.... There are treacherous moments in the melody when you’re sure it’s going to slide into cliche. But it always just evades it....It’s the octave drop in the fifteenth measure and the c sharp in the sixteenth that save it.”

How great is this thread. I'm in heaven!!

This is one of the greatest threads here in ages. So many great songs and performers , Totally agree with r39 - Thank you so much.

Another favorite of mine. Jordan deserves more attention. Sexy sexy song!

No thread is complete with Miss Ella Mae Morse , who more than once lost bookings because agents thought she was black. She wore it as a badge of honor.

Clifford Brown (whose death was such a tragic loss for jazz) - Stompin' at the Savoy

That's jazz...

Another version of Stardust by Grappelli.

(I really love Grappelli).

Peel Me A Grape.

Diana Krall, dump Elvis. I'll peel you so much better.

Dry Cleaner...

"Gloomy Sunday" has always been a favorite. So beautifully creepy and ethereal.

Some great versions by Billie Holiday, Paul Whiteman, Sarah McLachlan and Matt Forbes.

This album is a great collection

I would consider Shirley Horn’s Here’s to Life a better album, although her performance of “That Old Devil Called Love” on the Live in Paris album is superb.

SAL MOSCA! One of the unbelievable pianists who ever lived. He's great on this Lee Konitz record.1971. But listen to what Sal does on Background Music. Starts at 1:50. Greatest example of a jazz pianist who absorbed Bud's scene and made his own. Lee, who I adore pre 1965, lost me around 1965, and therefore his playing from then on sucked, as demonstrated on this track.

r153 my favorite Horn album is You Won't Forget Me. I also have a soft spot for You're My Thrill, which was my introduction to Horn during my senior year of high school.

Wrote too fast. One of the MOST unbelievable pianists who ever lived......Greatest example of a jazz pianist who absorbed Bud's scene and made IT his own.

Autumn Leaves - Bill Evans Trio

R155 she really was magnificent. I got to see her at Yoshi’s back in the 00’s, I believe. It’s such a small venue it was really a special experience. Her version of Green is beautiful.

I'm so jealous, r158!

And on that note, I love this cover:

Miss Faye

Blossom Dearie has a great Peel Me a Grape.

Try this.

Speaking of Blossom, I love her cover of The Party's Over

R131

Thank you! We mixed up a batch of martinis and played DataLounge Jazz on Spotify. Splendid!

There Will Never Be Another You - Beverly Kenney

Just Friends - Hank Jones

Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year - Helen Merrill

This is great thread... It started with a few versions of Frenesi which is a great song and I think this lyrical version by Eydie Gorme is fantastic... a delight!

I love "If I Had You" as recorded by Grappelli and Peterson (what a great pair)

One of my favorite standards.

i love you guys for this thread, I also love Scot Lofaro richly featured with Bill Evan

This turned me into a Peterson fan

Beautiful r170

This is a tribute album to Lady Day. It’s pretty good!

Wynton Masalis.....Stadust.... it is haunting...makes my heat ache....

The entire Girl from Ipanema album.

Louis Armstrong's earliest "St. James Infirmary" shows the way and connects to the New Orleans life in an authentic way.

Billie Holiday's last recording of "I'm a Fool to Want You." That's the one where she broke down because of how her voice was shot and she was so hurting.

Bessie Smith's "St. Louis Blues" and "Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer."

Jazz is inclusive enough to show grace to so many posters here who don't seem to know what jazz is.

I’ll continue to add to the Spotify playlist in the next few days. Keep sharing your favorites.

This one!

Helen Merrill's album with Clifford Brown has lots of gems.

What's New? - Helen Merrill & Clifford Brown

Not sure if this has been posted already, I went through as much of the thread as I could and I didn't see it, so sorry if it's already here.

I also wasn't quite sure if it qualified as a "jazz standard", but to me it is, and the little blurb on the YouTube video says it is so I'm going with their opinion and mine.

Weather Report - Birdland

“Time Out” Dave Brubeck

R174's keyboard must not have the letter "r".

Marsalis. Stardust. Heart.

I have an "R" but sometimes it sticks.

And this thread cannot be complete without Herbie Hancock

You should get a keyboard protector so your jizz doesn't make the keys stick.

I like this as much as the film version.

R177, You're a star!! Thank you, Thank you! This will be a little tender morsel of goodness & joy to plug into when I need the lift of beauty & goodness that great art can give!

Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca

Mornin' to my Jazz lovin' buds. Have morning off, so can post..

Not a total Ella fan, but this is utter heaven

Can't leave this one out: Dinah at her best with two brilliant trumpeters.

More Billie..

Been there, felt like that!!

A Night in Tunisia

Love For Sale

1961 at Carnegie Hall is my favorite version of Manteca

This is my favorite song. I can't decide which version is the best. It's hard to beat the original, but I do love Frank Sinatra's version, too.

"So In Love" is another favorite. I love the lyrics "So taunt me and hurt me. Deceive me, desert me. I'm yours til I die."

"Something Cool:" by June Christy.

R195

There are so many versions of this song, but this may be one of the best, if not the best.

Ella Fitzgerald with lyrics.

Cole Porter said that he didn't know his songs were beautiful until he heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.

Thanks r197!

Don't know if this counts as jazz but Darin at the Copa is wonderful.

Now a break from Sat. Morning Chores...Me & Pres. Lester Young. What a great pause before I start the vacuum.

Ok, i'm have a warm & a little Fats, if you please..

r201, you reminded me of this version, which I haven't listened to in a long time

Need a bit more Fats ' I plug in that vacuum..

Can't help myself just one more Fats!

r204 is one of my favorites. Haven't heard it in YEARS. Thank you!

Check out the 1938-39 London Suite Recordings now on You Tube. Stellar!

Ladybird - Fat Navarro. Listen to that beautiful languid solo by Fats. That is jazz, man

"Le Jazz Hot," of course.

No one ever enunciated the "wh-" sound (as in "whizzing 'round the world") quite like Julie Andrews (the embodiment of jazz) did.

Bobby Darin was often jazz-adjacent, like Sinatra and Bennett. And a helluva singer.

R209 - Agreed. Very underrated by comparison too. Had he lived, he would've far outshone Tony B...who's more traditionally a 'jazz singer' but no where near as dynamic a performer and all around talent.

This new jazz documentary looks really good.

Thanks again to OP & all. Always loved the Count & Lester..

Bobby Darin's voice or musicianship was nowhere near as good as Sinatra's (in his younger years) or Bennett. And he adopted the worst qualities of Sinatra's "Ring-a-Ding" years.

A bit atypical for him perhaps, but the man could really swing.

The man is EIGHTY-SIX YEARS OLD , still tours and sounds great.

r212: "Jumpin at the Woodside" was intended to be the music for this classic jitterbug dance sequence with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from HELLZAPOPPIN! (1941) , but rights issue could not be worked out and it was replaced by other music (which wasn't bad)

Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started

Like many great jazz musicians, Berigan drank himself to death - at the age of 33.

I played a round of golf with Mathis many years ago R214. Nice guy, good golfer.

R217, I am pea green. I would have been an ass for sure. Wouldn't have been able to not be a silly fan. I would have to have an autograph & would have begged, begged to even hear one line of a song. He is a God of song in my eyes!

Can't forget this Ella masterpiece.

I'm with you, r218. The man's musicianship is stellar. And I've never heard of him being anything but a gentleman to fans and co-workers. No diva attitude. And he tours constantly to sold-out shows.

The only thing about him I don't care for is his horrible hairpiece. But it's a look his fans love him for.

He was very nicely put together for someone not very tall and was dressed beautifully. I was smitten.

Victor was a jazz musician - Grace Jones

I love, love, love this thread, so glad people keep posting new ones & are educating me!!

This is the DL I know & love, so much.

Billie can't get started

The Nearness of You. A fellow musician friend of mine used to do a great version of it— but here’s Ella and Louis doing a smashing version of it:

This album is phenomenal

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Candy….

Fantastic album

Interesting that we're 200+ posts in and no one has mentioned the second-most covered standard in jazz history.

Oscar Peterson's version

I LOVE DL & all those on this thread. Its like a free graduate course in a top rate music school...

Thank you all!!

Years ago, Saturday Review conducted a poll of professional composers and lyricists of the greatest song. All the Things You Are was the winner.

r232 that's really interesting (but not surprising). It's a great song.

Tommy Dorsey's version

Artie Shaw's version

Not jazzy, but the full orchestral and choral version of the song as performed in the theater is gorgeous.

All the Things You Are (original version)

This is slightly off topic, but has anyone here ever heard of The 1975? They're a British group and they have a very jazzy sound. I heard them for the first time a while ago and I was thinking of them.

"Here's that Rainy day" Hard to find one I like, but this one seems to be the best of the moment. Hard one for vocalists,, haven't heard one I like yet as a vocal

How about this rainy day

Found a decent vocal of Rainy day

I love Till Brönner—this a great album.

I wish you love….

This compilation put together by Billy Crystal is a phenomenal retrospective. Billie actually babysat him when he was a child.

Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan have a beautiful cover of "Stardust"

Wow that’s gorgeous r244

Let's not forget how dirty the blues could be. And no one could do it better than Dinah.

A swinging "Stardust"

Not sure if anyone hit it or not...."Isn't it romantic" the tune that can usually lead to gettin' laid..

Even better to get one...Oh Hohnny

"All the Things You Are" is ... the most perfectly constructed of all popular standards.

Just discovered this nice version of "Isn't It Romantic?"

Have any of you ever heard of Angelina Jordan?

She is a Norwegian singer who began singing in a jazz style from a very young age. She won Norway's Got Talent when she 8 years old. At 14, she got a record contract with Republic Records.

She just turned 16 and is now living in Los Angeles. She is building her career slowly as her family wants her to finish school before she does music full-time. She has being doing tons of covers on YouTube since she was young.

Here she is at age 9 doing "I Put a Spell on You":

Play 'Misty' For Me

I said play it!

Angelina Jordan, age 7, Gloomy Sunday, on Norway's Got Talent

I find a young girl singing I Put a Spell on You like that is a bit creepy.

The very first time I saw it I thought it was odd, too. But then I got used to it and realized she was just very advanced for her age after seeing her other videos.

Angelina Jordan at age 13 singing Bohemian Rhapsody on America's Got Talent

Duke Ellington & Bob Russell's 'I Didn't Know About You' has haunted me since the first time I heard it decades ago. The lyrics about using a meaningless social life to mask loneliness are timeless and still ring true today. Just gorgeous.

This rendition by Patti Page is one of my favorites. Not only because of Pete Rugulo's exquisite arrangement, but the straight forward way that Patti Page sang it. She let the gorgeous melody & lyrics speak for themselves.

Pat Suzuki also did an excellent, lightly swinging version on one of few LPs.

Does "I've Got You under My Skin" count as jazz? It's one of my favorites, especially Sinatra's recording for Capitol. Carly Simon does a version I like, too.

Dinah Washington swings "Skin" earlier in this thread.

I love that song too, r259.

I love Syms' world-weariness in her rendition. And she's underrated in general.

My Funny Valentine - Angelina Jordan

Angelina doing funny Valentine reminds me a bit of my darling Julie London, but she's got a ways to go, for sure. But of course who can top my Adonis, Chet doing funny Valentine? He will always be my poster boy for what that jealous God addiction does to the addict. "Let's get Lost" one of the saddest docu's of all time. RIP darling Chet, you still always bring me such joy.

Wish my mavens & Jazz sages would please come back & post more. please. This thread sent me on a quest & I learned so much. Hungry for more!!

Great album

Beautiful

Not a jazz standard, but a nice bilingual duet some might enjoy.

I bow down to you my Jazz sages, more wonderfulness!! Thank you. Keep em' coming, I'm a hungry student at your feet.

"In A Sentimental Mood" with Ellington and Coltrane might be one of the most beautiful, moody, timeless jazz performances ever recorded. Definitely my favorite instrumental jazz track.

Put this album on in the wee small hours of the morning with rain glistening outside your window...it's transportive!

R271, I saw this thread and I was just getting ready to post that tune. Thank you!!!