What are some good Jazz songs
 

im trying to make a compilation of Jazz song's i can grab off of soulseek for my dad

please no flames on music piracy from RIAA undercovers

just about any thing from

Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker

and if you want to make him laugh

John Valby - Shithouse Blues
or anything by John Valby he's not Jazz

cool, cuz the jazz station he listens to changed formats and are playing gay shit, so at work he wants to listen to some cd's

John Lee Hooker rocks as far as I'm concerned

Check out John Zorn. His 'Filmworks' collection is awesome.

Very good jazz man :thumbsup

Did you know....a song, like..
bla bla bla....FIVER!!!...bla bla...i got fiver!!
somthing like this? :1orglaugh
Some one have Mp3? :helpme

Look for:

Jane Monheit
Tierney Sutton
Jimmy Scott
Jacky Terrason
Julie London
Dinah Washington
Nina Simone
Miles Davis

there's a few there... :winkwink:

since you're using soulseek you might wanna check out the jazz chat channel as well and they'll help ya out or even browse the user files...

Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Mel Torme
Road Song (instrumental) - Wes Montgomery
They All Laughed - I like the Charlie Biddle Trio version
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway

SpaceAce

"jazz" is just an improvisational style with many variants,

can be abstract or recognizable to a melody.

many tunes lend themselves to jazz versions.

some recent jazzified ballads are good:

norah jones doing hoagy charmicheal's "the nearness of you"

diana krall's version of "the look of love" or the joni mitchell tune "a case of you"

lately american idol contestant fantasia's smokin' rendition of "summertime"

or instrumental stuff, saxophone david sanborn, etc.

lots of great jazz from the 40's nat king cole, erroll garner, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...790876-4326336

that's where you've got to start looking :winkwink:

Aggghhh -- you just reminded that someone stole my Jane Monheit cd. Beautiful voice.

I love early jazz. One of my faves is Louis Armstrong doing "West End Blues". Mmmm!!! So sexy!!

Another big bandish fave:
Jack Teagarden: I Cover the Waterfront

don't forget dizzy gillespie and charlie parker :2 cents: