Lets post about JAZZ STANDARDS

But I see he did get in for "Cantaloupe Island."

I got kind of obsessed with Memories of You for a while in college after hearing first the Mingus and then the Louis Armstrong version. Several years later it seemed like a lot of people were playing it, probably an example of both me and all of those other people "crate digging" for less-worn standards.

Ted Gioia's Huffington Post articles about how Lady Gaga recording with Tony Bennett proves that young Americans are sick and tired of all that programmed electronic bleepity-bloop pop and are ready for real music has almost totally pushed me away from reading any of his books.

The other day I got to wondering about the origins of Autumn Leaves, for the stupid reason that it's fall right now and autumn leaves were drifting past my window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfsp8kwJto

There are so many versions of Love For Sale but aside from Ella Fitzgerald, the two Miles/Cannonball ones are the ones that cannot be fucked with imo.

I don't think this qualifies as a jazz standard, but I've been kind of obsessed with "The Weekend of a Private Secretary" lately, which it turns out was written by Johnny Mercer, and recorded by Mildred Bailey, Eileen Farrell, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra among others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_xb8Ml-zU

that spotify list is a great treat

Even better than my Jazz Daily Mix

Giant playlist is surprisingly listenable. Or maybe not surprising.

Also, here is another relevant thread: Standards Scrutiny: A Night In Tunisia