Category: Jazz standard

Avalon is a popular American song written by Al Jolson , Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose, published in 1920 1 . It was recorded for the first time by Jolson. Jolson also used the song inmusical performances Sindbad 2 , 3 and Bombo 4 , 5 .

As Time Goes By is a song written by Herman Hupfeld for the show Everybody’s welcome played in 1931 on Broadway. Frances Williams performed the song but it was repeated the same year, among others by Rudy Vallee .

Anthropology is a piece of jazz written by saxophonistCharlie Parker, trumpet playerDizzy GillespieandJoe Bishop  (in) in1946. The theme, of AABA form , counts 32 measures, based on the anatole .

All the Things You Are (“All Things You Are “) is a song written byJerome Kern(music) andOscar Hammerstein II(lyrics) for themusical Very Warm for May . It has become one ofthe most popularjazz standards. The popularity of the song was a surprise for Kern (the composer thought that the music was too complex to achieve great success 1 ).

All of Me is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks  (in) and Seymour Simons  (in) in 1931 . First recorded by Ruth Etting  (en) in December 1931, it is broadcast for the first time on the radio, performed by Belle Baker . She became one of the most recorded songs of her time, including performances by Paul Whiteman and Louis Armstrong in 1932 , Mildred Bailey , Teddy Wilson , Billie Holiday , Johnny Ray , Ella Fitzgerald , Dean Martin , Frank Sinatra , Django Reinhardt and Willie Nelson .

Airegin was composed by tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1954 and later became a jazz standard . The title comes from the name of the country Nigeria is spelled backwards and reveals both the great interest of Rollins to the origins of African jazz and its own origins 1 . It was recorded in 1954 by Miles Davis on the album Bags ‘Groove with Rollins on saxophone and recorded again …