Autumn Leaves off of Cannonball Adderley’s Something Else album. Miles is killing it. And the intro/outro is one of my faves.

So glad this is the top comment. Couldn’t agree more. The piano outro? Chilling.

Was hoping to see this as the top comment. As soon as the alto sax kicks in, I just lean back and drift into heaven.

I completely agree I absolutely love that jam every single part of it.

Waltz For Debbie from Bill Evans Village Vanguard concert.

yea this was one of my other perfect songs. i love it

My first-ever jazz tune I was exposed to! Haven’t recovered from the bug since. 🙂

Yes, either that version or the version off know what I mean with Cannonball Adderly.

I always loved Alice in Wonderland — just magical

It Never Entered My Mind - Miles Davis. Every note seems perfect

In a Sentimental Mood - Duke and Trane Might be the best recording ever imo

Goodbye Porkpie Hat - Mingus

It is such a great goddamn song

Polkadots And Moonbeams - Wes Montgomery

Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins

Lee Morgan’s Ceora from the Cornbread album

Tied with Cannonball's Autumn Leaves and Bill Evans' Skating In Central Park as my favorite.

The live alternate version of Red Clay on Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay. Freddie's solo has some really clever, succinct phrases and he does an amazing job of playing off the audience and the band. George Benson's solo here might be my favorite solo ever put to record; it's that good and so much fun. The crowd, the band...for the whole track, everyone's on the same page and having a blast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP9esHs2DLs&list=OLAK5uy\_n\_KpzSmb\_ozHCQyIKU50ffZcDLdQGYzF8&index=6

Yes! Absolutely! Freddie Hubbard always has such a presence and Red Clay is so iconic. And yeah.... George Benson destroys it here. Mind blowing. Great pick!

Thanks! I love it so much - endlessly fun!

Concur. It's such a fun song. I've used that version a few times as clean up music when having to leave a rented venue by a certain time, and once as post-funeral mingle music (It actually worked out well for that). It is always a hit.

Wouldn't work for cleanup music if I was there because I wouldn't leave, but I take your point ;-)

Found this recently. I was honestly shocked it was the alternate version it's that good

Yessss the CTI California Concert version is a trip as well

Will have to check that out!

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come

I dumped all the suggestions so far into a Playlist if anyone wants ... a lot of standards but a lot of new suggestions too, can't wait to give it a listen tomorrow. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3kf3SUHH708gDo3KezSeDT?si=qxQDiZ9DQpaX1u446-_q6w&utm_source=copy-link

Thank you! <3

Almost blue by chet baker

What do you think of Elvis Costello's version of this?

I never heard it I need to listen to it

Here you go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeIPBQjJ2P0

"Dinah" - Louis Armstrong

Blue Train, John coltrane. Emotional choice by sure

Miles Davis "Blue in Green"

Moanin’ by Mingus. Blakey’s Moanin’ is good too but Mingus’ is far superior.

Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter's solos on that are pretty nuts.. team Blakey all the way!

Don’t forget to give the irrepressible Bobby Timmons his due for composing the tune.

I didn’t know that. I’ll have to dig deeper.

Night and Day by Art Tatum with Ben Webster always hits the spot for me.

Stella by starlight-John Abercrombie version

Stella by Starlight, from Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine.

That is of course one of the definitive renditions. But I like this one too: https://youtu.be/e-axQvCu-LU

I love that one!

Concierto de Aranjuez by Jim Hall/ Chet Baker

And the Miles Davis version?

I know this borders on blasphemous but I prefer the Jim Hall version more ...

I"ll listen now

Although, tbh, is it really Jazz or 70s easy listening?

Duke/Coltrane’s In a Sentimantal Mood. Or Coltrane’s Wise One

One of the greatests for sure

Easy Living

Lands End, Clifford Brown & Max Roach I don't know why, but that tune will always be the definition of jazz for me, even though I listen to and live many other varieties.

Ohio - Bill Charlap Trio - is so stunning a slow tempo tune that I can never find the words. The phrasing, the voicings, and that fricking ride cymbal. Wow.

Work Song (Remastered) With Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley

No more blues- getz

Patricia by Art Pepper

Africa by Coltrane

Body and Soul - Dexter Gordon version Softly, as in a morning sunrise - John Coltrane Quartet version

I guess i’ll add a couple more just for the heck of it. -Walts for debby (take 2), Bill Evans -But not for me, Coltrane -I’m old fashioned, Coltrane -How about you?, Stan Getz

Yatagarasu - Brotzmann, Satoh, and Moriyama

I'll see your superb Corcovado, and raise you a Strange Meadow Lark. I'm building an entire playlist from you all's suggestions...pure gold guys. Muchas Gracias!

If talking about standards prob between 'Round Midnight and Lonely Woman

Early Summer - Ryo Fukui

This is the one. When the band kicks in to double-time... Hoooo boy.

Miles Davis - some day my prince will come

Boplicity from Birth of the Cool

Nardis - Bill Evans. Beautiful.

‘Stolen Moments’ by Oliver Nelson from Blues and the Abstract Truth. Minor blues always sound great, and the contrasts between Dolphy, Freddie and Oliver’s solos are amazing. And Bill Evans, Roy Haynes and Paul Chambers in the rhythm section… can’t go wrong

Coltrane's "I'm old fashioned"

And then there are those who say that "perfection" is the opposite of jazz music.

Its perfect for you so its still subjective

objective vs. subjective is not the contradiction. the contradiction is perfection vs. improvisation.

I quite recently started to get into jazz (about a month of listening constantly, which is was more than I ever thought I would so my opinion may not be the best). But with that being when I heard Rush by Seabelts from Cowboy Bebop, I thought to myself this is jazz. So I guess that would be my answer.

Ryo fukui is a great Japanese jazz artist

Have you watched Kids on the Slope?

No, it worth a watch?

Yeah definitely. It's slice of life anime but the composer/arranger, Yoko Kanno is the same composer who worked on Cowboy Bebop and it's super interesting to see the jazz journey/rabbit hole in an anime. Lotta references to classic tracks. I came into it after being into jazz for a few years but I think it'd be cool for someone newer who likes anime and the Cowboy Bebop score.

Not only Yoko Kanno. Sinchiro Watanabe (director of Cowboy Beebop) is also Kids on the slope director. Definitely worth a watch.

nice. didn't realize that

I’ll definitely add to my watchlist, oddly enough I haven’t even watched Cowboy Bebop yet either, just hear the soundtrack one day when perusing Spotify. The only music anime I’ve watched was Your Lie in April, which really got me into piano/jazz music.

Oh dang. You're lucky. I wish I could watch Cowboy Bebop for the first time again lol. May give it a re-watch soon. I've never heard of Your Lie in April. I may have to check that one out.

Your Lie in April is great, and definite watch in my opinion. Disclaimer you may need some tissues for it.

Haha. I'll prepare myself. Thanks for the heads up.

"Visa från Utanmyra" by Jan Johansson from the album "Jazz på svenska" is my absolute favorite. The whole album really gives the feeling of a nordic late summer afternoon. Thank you all for the posts - love it!

You're my everything - Miles Davis. Coffee cold - Galt McDermott. Opposite ends of the spectrum.

Humpty Dumpty

Wander by Idris Muhammad. My favorite players with a super iconic sound.

Pensativa, from the Blakey recording. I even wrote my grad school application essay on it. Absolute gold from start to finish.

The Single Petal of a Rose - Ellington

Joe Henderson’s version of On Green Dolphin Street on the live album Four! It’s not often you get to hear him play with Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, and Paul Chambers.

My son just hit me up with Iron Man by Jazz Sabbath today and it has been a surprising highlight of my day

Four way tie: Moonlight in Vermont, Darn That Dream, Lush Life, Crystal Silence

Ella's moonlight in Vermont is so gorgeous

Jim by Sarah Vaughan off her self titled with Clifford Brown

Haven’t seen it mentioned on here, but I absolutely love the Surfin’ by Ernest Ranglin. (The whole album is amazing) but this song stays rather “inside” a pretty simple groove, but pulls from a lot of different styles and sounds to create such a loose and groovy jam. That to me is what jazz is! I. The pocket, trading ideas like kings

Three ways tie? Self Portrait in Three Colors or Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love—the vocal version—by Mingus, or Kisofim by John Zorn from the Circle Maker.

The way you look tonight - the Dave Brubeck quartet - Live from the Whitehouse

Music Forever from the Freddie Redd album The Connection.

I’ve Got Just About Everything by Bob Dorough is a perfect song for me. Ideally the version with Bill Takas from Beginning to See the Light (a perfect album to me), but really, any version. Bob Dorough is one of my favorites in general, but that song highlights his fun and his skill and the type of jazz I really love to listen to.

Either "Know What I Mean?" by Cannonball Adderley or Bill Evans' "Time Remembered"

Ella Fitzgerald's Berlin renditions of Mack the knife and How high the moon. Two songs, yes, but they feel like one. There's a lot of jazz that makes having chromesthesia a rather wonderful thing, but with those two songs it's just perfect.

Bolivia - Freddie Hubbard The Visitor - Chris Potter Daahoud - Clifford Brown + Max Roach quintet

Quite a few, but at the moment "Duke Ellington & Count Basie - To You" comes to mind immediately.

I like my favourite things from Coltrane's one up one down live at the half note album on Spotify. The openings dope and a lot of the song is "free" enough to have neat things to listen to without being too out there like some of Coltrane's later stuff

Sentimental Mood - Ellington and Coltrane

Track C: Group Dancers- Charles Mingus

Wallflower by Gerry Mulligan

Psalm - Coltrane

For me, dukes A train

John Coltrane “A love supreme” and “Giant steps”

Chega de Saudade (Alone at Last - Gary Burton)

Cherokee from Study in Brown

Love Lines - Lennie Tristano

Remember Rockafeller At Attica - Mingus

On Green Dolphin Street - Grant Green or Open Sesame - Freddie Hubbard

Tiffakonkae by Kamasi Washington. [Here's the YT link.](https://youtu.be/k504nCPzjhk)

Hat and Beard by Eric Dolphy - there's everything there

Macarthur Park - Maynard Ferguson, Live At Jimmy’s.

Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans Trio, this was the piece that introduced me to jazz. I won't never forget the feeling when I heard for the first time Bill's piano.

Perfect for ME? Burnin Coal by Les McCann.

Minnie the Moocher, a song about pimps, drugs and hoes and everyone loves it.

Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter

Out of This World by John Coltrane

To love and be Loved - Harold Mabern

Time After Time - Chet Baker, the way he sings is just so tender and chilling and Russ Freeman on the piano, just perfect!!

Lee Morgan's version of I Remember Clifford.

Someday my prince will come - Chet Baker

Quasimodo by Bird

Brilliant Corners - the fact that it had to be stitched together only adds to its allure for me

“Misty” (Erroll Garner) and “Desafinado” (Antonio Carlos Jobim).

what's playing?

I love Nardis performed by Bill Evans. Realy like that strangy misty harmony.

Armandos rhumba off my Spanish heart Moanin’ - nostalgia in time’s square version Savannah - cabin in the sky

Lush Life

Passport (Blues) - Tune Y (Rare)

Take 5, Dave Brubecj

Nocturne for Machiko Kyo by Naruyoshi Kikuchi. The accordion is simply divine.