Jazz24's "The Jazz 100" list

[hearcostello]

Moderator Edit:
These titles are included in the Jazz1300 playlist.
https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/Jazz-1300-Standards.12753/
Because of slight differences in the charts, downloading this playlist may result in many nearly identical duplicate charts in your library.
)BOB

Hey all, I just found a site called Jazz24(dot)org that did a user survey and these were the top 100 vote-getters. Well... 79 of them. 21 of the ones on their 100 list were nowhere to be found on the big lists here! I didn't do exhaustive searches through all posts for the missing ones, though, so I suppose it's possible they're in here somewhere, from individual contributors. But thought this might be an interesting playlist to view.

Jazz24 top 100 (79)

Individual songs:
Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
All Blues - Miles Davis
April In Paris - Vernon Duke
At Last - Harry Warren
Autumn In New York - Vernon Duke
Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosma
Begin The Beguine - Cole Porter
Blue In Green - Miles Davis, Bill Evans
Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
Body And Soul - Johnny Green
Bye Bye Blackbird - Ray Henderson
Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
Caravan - Duke Ellington
Ceora - Lee Morgan
Desafinado - Antonio-Carlos Jobim
Desafinado (Original) - Antonio-Carlos Jobim
Django - John Lewis
Donna Lee - Charlie Parker
Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke
Fever - Davenport-Cooley
Footprints - Wayne Shorter
Four On Six - Wes Montgomery
Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis
Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Girl From Ipanema, The - Antonio-Carlos Jobim
God Bless The Child - Herzog-Holiday
Good Morning Heartache - Drake-Fisher-Higginbotham
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus
How High The Moon - Morgan Lewis
I Loves You Porgy - George Gershwin
In Crowd, The - Dobie Gray (Billy Page)
In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington
It Don't Mean A Thing - Duke Ellington
Joy Spring - Clifford Brown
Ko Ko - Charlie Parker
Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn
Mack The Knife - Kurt Weill
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie
Mercy Mercy Mercy - Joe Zawinul
Milestones (New) - Miles Davis
Milestones (Old) - Miles Davis
Misterioso - Thelonious Monk
Misty - Erroll Garner
Moanin' - Bobby Timmons
Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
My Favorite Things - Richard Rodgers
My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers
Naima - John Coltrane
Night In Tunisia, A - Dizzy Gillespie
Nuages - Django Reinhardt
On Green Dolphin Street - Bronislau Kaper
Ornithology - Charlie Parker
Poinciana - Nat Simon
Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard
Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk
Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie
Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
So What - Miles Davis
Someday My Prince Will Come - Frank Churchill
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
Sophisticated Lady - Duke Ellington
Spain - Chick Corea
St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
Star Dust - Hoagy Carmichael
Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson
Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Lillian Armstrong
Sugar - Stanley Turrentine
Summertime - George Gershwin
Take Five - Paul Desmond
Take The A Train - Billy Strayhorn
Waltz For Debby - Bill Evans
Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
What A Wonderful World - Weiss-Thiele
Yardbird Suite - Charlie Parker

I don't have time right now to go back through and list the missing ones, but I'll do that soon... Perhaps some (like "Birdland," not to be confused w/ "Lullaby of Birdland") aren't all that practical in the iRealB format, since they're so much more melody-dependent than chordal...

 

[pdxdjazz]

Helpful info:
https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/Sharing-songs-and-Playlists.14683/
Thanks,
)BOB

 

[hearcostello]

Thanks for the guidance, I'm pretty new to the group. I thought the sandbox was more for original tunes. Also, I think the missing 21 tunes from this list will be valuable to the group as a challenge to add them to the library.

 

[hearcostello]

And this wasn't a "personal" playlist as you called it. But I understand.

 

[pdxdjazz]

You are welcome to post the titles of songs that aren't in the forums yet.

https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/How-To-Search-For-Or-Request-Songs.15145/

Perhaps participating members will post iRp charts for them.

https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/Can-YOU-Help.14691/


)BOB

 

[hearcostello]

You are welcome to post the titles of songs that aren't in the forums yet.
Perhaps participating members will post iRp charts for them.
)BOB

OK, going back through the jazz24.org list of their top 100, these tunes listed below are the ones that I didn't find an iRealB chart for. From what I can tell, their list is based more on specific recordings than on the charts themselves (or the original composer(s) ), but I was still surprised to see so many of these absent from the iRealB books. And of course I recognize this is an arbitrary list, just like suffering through the inane inclusions and enraging exclusions of, say, a Spin Magazine list of essential pop recordings or whatnot. But I personally have been enjoying the collection they've made on their site, and found it worth exploring.
If these ARE in the forums somewhere, and are perhaps buried in a singular post, or titled differently, please reply and let me know!

A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement -- John Coltrane
Birdland -- Weather Report
Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing) -- Benny Goodman
Strange Fruit -- Billy Holiday
Blue Rondo A La Turk -- Dave Brubeck Quintet (duh... would make for a pretty useless iRealB chart)
West End Blues -- Louis Armstrong
Flamenco Sketches -- Miles Davis
Blue Train -- John Coltrane
Moanin' -- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
In The Mood -- Glenn Miller Orchestra (??? How is this not in here somewhere? Titled differently, perhaps?)
Cast Your Fate to the Wind -- Vince Guaraldi
Rhapsody in Blue -- George Gershwin (another duh)
Compared to What? -- Les McCann
Bitches Brew -- Miles Davis
Twisted -- Lambert Hendricks & Ross
Linus & Lucy -- Vince Guaraldi
One O'Clock Jump -- Count Basie
Potato Head Blues -- Louis Armstrong
Bumpin' on Sunset -- Wes Montgomery
Feeling Good -- Nina Simone
Moody's Mood for Love -- James Moody
Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue -- Count Basie and his Orchestra
Water Boy -- Don Shirley Trio

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And I am not EVEN gonna deal w/ anyone working the math out on this, cuz yes, I counted 23... and yet my playlist has 79 on it... which makes 102, when it's called the Top 100. I can't see where I and/or they went wrong, and I'm too much A, B and C and not enough D, E, and F to care right now ;-)

 

[pdxdjazz]

Have you tried the search function:
Magnifying glass icon at the top-right of this page?
A number of the tunes have been posted.
)BOB

 

[pdxdjazz]

R.I.P. Jack DeJohnette

R.I.P. Jack DeJohnette (August 9, 1942 – October 26, 2025) he was an American jazz drummer, pianist and composer.
Known for his extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians including Charles Lloyd, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, John Abercrombie, Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, and John Scofield, DeJohnette was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2007. He won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for six others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_DeJohnette

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=jack+dejohnette

(BOB