STUDENT RECOURSES
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JAZZ STANDARDS TO KNOW
GOOGLE IT AND GROOVE
Take the A Train
Satin Doll
There Will Never Be Another You
There is No Greater Love
A Night in Tunisia
All the Things You Are
Blue Bossa
Rhythm Changes
Blues Heads (Blue Monk, Blueswalk, Bags Groove, Tenor Madness, Straight No Chaser)
All of Me
MUSIC PERFORMED IN PAST YEARS OF ALL CITY
St. James Infirmary (Joe Primrose): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs
Blues By Five (Red Garland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxd7Pi3j5K8
Backup Blues (Original): 12-bar blues composed by the MS All-City musicians in Bb
HIGH SCHOOL
Little Sunflower (Freddie Hubbard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtB8dEuEmNM
Blues for Axel (Sean Stineford): Original 12-bar blues in Bb
Doxy (Sonny Rollins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpueyrkcMyQ
Cantelope Island (Herbie Hancock): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io
The Jody Grind (Horace Silver): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIrE6sZduWo
Work Song (Nat Adderley): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmwsQ_dHrFM
Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40V2lcxM7k
Revelation (Kenny Barron):
Impressions (John Coltrane): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03juO5oS2gg
Cold Duck Time (Eddie Harris): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ago8dP4fFA
Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuMd8ldLqxo
Equinox (John Coltrane): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5QGBHavF0U
WHO ARE YOUR HEROES? CHECK THIS LIST OUT
BIG BANDS
Count Basie Duke Ellington
Bob Mintzer Les Brown
Larry Elgar Fletcher Henderson
Jimmy Dorsey Glenn Miller
Tommy Dorsey Woody Herman
Buddy Rich
Stan Kenton
Charlie Barnett
Lionel Hampton
Maynard Ferguson
Gene Krupa
Chick Webb
Artie Shaw
Harry James
Jimmie Lunceford
Claude Thornhill
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
John Fedchock
Maria Schneider
TRUMPET
Louis Armstrong
Ingrid Jensen
Cat Anderson
Chloe Rowlands
Harry “Sweets” Edison
Clark Terry
Roy Eldridge
Buddy Bolden
Cootie Williams
Harry James
Maynard Ferguson
Miles Davis
Freddie Hubbard
Dizzy Gillespie
Lee Morgan
Fats Navarro
Blue Mitchell
Booker Little
Tim Hagans
Dave Douglas
Don Cherry
Clifford Brown
Greg Gisbert
Terence Blanchard
Roy Hargrove
TROMBONE
Kalia Vandever
Juan Tizol
Jennifer Wharton
Trummy Young
Melba Liston
Urbie Green
Bill Harris
Glenn Miller
Tommy Dorsey
Kai Winding
JJ Johnson
Steve Turre
Frank Rosolino
Carl Fontana
Bob Brookmeyer
Ray Anderson
Conrad Herwig
John Fedchock
Dickie Wells
Andy Martin
Phil Wilson
Josh Roseman
Marshall Gilkes
Ryan Keberle
SAXOPHONE
Lester Young
Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins
Charlie Parker
Sidney Bechet
Stan Getz
Johnny Griffin
John Coltrane
Wayne Shorter
George Coleman
Rich Perry
Rick Margitza
Steve Wilson
Kenny Garrett
Michael Brecker
Joshua Redman
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Rollins
Bob Mintzer
PIANO
Teddy Wilson
Art Tatum
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Art Hodes
Erroll Garner
Bill Evans
Red Garland
Horace Silver
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Keith Jarrett
McCoy Tyner
Earl Hines
Billy Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Thelonious Monk
Mary Lou Williams
Oscar Peterson
BASS
Milt Hinton
Charles Mingus
Walter Page
Jimmy Blanton
Oscar Pettiford
Ray Brown
Ron Carter
Paul Chambers
Red Mitchell
Scott LaFaro
Jimmy Garrison
Eddie Gomez
Dave Holland
Gary Peacock
Jaco Pastorius
Christian McBride
Scott Colley
GUITAR
Charlie Christian
Herb Ellis
Joe Pass
Jim Hall
Wes Montgomery
Freddie Green
Pat Metheny
John Scofield
George Benson
Peter Bernstein
Mark Whitfield
John McLaughlin
Pat Martino
Gene Bertoncini
Bucky Pizzarelli
Johh PIzzarelli
VIBES
Lionel Hampton
Milt Jackson
Stefon Harris
Bobby Hutcherson
Gary Burton
Victor Feldman
Tubby Hayes
Red Norvo
Dave Samuels
Mike Manieri
DRUM SET
Papa Jo Jones
Gene Krupa
Buddy Rich
Sonny Payne
Sid Catlett
Louis Bellson
Ed Thigpen
Max Roach
Chick Webb
Art Blakey
Philly Joe Jones
Baby Dodds
Paul Motian
Joey Baron
Peter Erskine
Elvin Jones
Brian Blade
Lewis Nash
John Riley
Kenny Clarke
Mel Lewis
Sonny Greer
Jeff Hamilton
Johnathan Blake