jazz: 500 favourite tracks

East St. Louis Toodle-o – Duke Ellington
Black and tan fantasy – Duke Ellington
Black beauty – Duke Ellington
The mooche – Duke Ellington
Misty mornin‘ – Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington
Rockin‘ in rhythm – Duke Ellington
It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing) – Duke Ellington
Creole love call – Duke Ellington
Solitude – Duke Ellington
In a sentimental mood – Duke Ellington
Reminiscing in tempo – Duke Ellington
Caravan – Duke Ellington
Diminuendo in blue – Duke Ellington
Crescendo in blue – Duke Ellington
Pyramid – Duke Ellington
Jack The Bear – Duke Ellington
Ko-Ko – Duke Ellington
Concerto for Cootie – Duke Ellington
Cotton tail – Duke Ellington
Harlem air shaft – Duke Ellington
Sepia panorama – Duke Ellington
In a mellotone – Duke Ellington
Take the ‚A‘ train – Duke Ellington
Blue Serge – Duke Ellington
Just a-settin‘ and a-rockin‘ – Duke Ellington
I got it bad (and that ain’t good) – Duke Ellington
‚Round about midnight – Thelonious Monk
Off minor – Thelonious Monk
Thelonious – Thelonious Monk
Epistrophy – Thelonious Monk
Misterioso – Thelonious Monk
Well you needn’t – Thelonious Monk
Your mothers‘ son-in-law – Billie Holiday
What a little moonlight can do – Billie Holiday
Miss Brown to you – Billie Holiday
Billie’s blues – Billie Holiday
I must have that man – Billie Holiday
Easy living – Billie Holiday
You got to my head – Billie Holiday
Strange fruit – Billie Holiday
Fine and mellow – Billie Holiday
Body and soul – Billie Holiday
Georgia on my mind – Billie Holiday
All of me – Billie Holiday
God bless the child – Billie Holiday
Solitude – Billie Holiday
Gloomy sunday – Billie Holiday
The man I love – Billie Holiday
Do you know what it means to Miss New Orleans – Billie Holiday
Solitude – Billie Holiday
Evonce – Thelonious Monk
Straight no chaser – Thelonious Monk
Monks‘ mood – Thelonious Monk
Criss Cross – Thelonious Monk
In the wee small hours of the morning – Frank Sinatra
Mood indigo – Frank Sinatra
I get along with you very well – Frank Sinatra
What is this thing called love – Frank Sinatra
Last night when we were young – Frank Sinatra
It never entered my mind – Frank Sinatra
St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins
You don’t know what love is – Sonny Rollins
Jeru – Miles Davis
Venus de Milo – Miles Davis
Rocker – Miles Davis
Israel – Miles Davis
Brilliant Corners – Thelonious Monk
I’m an old cowhand – Sonny Rollins
Come, gone – Sonny Rollins
Way out west – Sonny Rollins
My ship – Miles Davis
Miles ahead – Miles Davis
Blues for Pablo – Miles Davis
My funny Valentine – Miles Davis
Airegin – Miles Davis
Blue Train – John Coltrane
La Nevada – Gil Evans
Dr. Jekyll – Miles Davis
Milestones – Miles Davis
Summertime – Miles Davis
My man’s gone now – Miles Davis
It ain’t necessarily so – Miles Davis
I loves you, Porgy – Miles Davis
Autumn leaves – Julian ‚Cannonball‘ Adderley
Dancing in the dark – Julian ‚Cannonball‘ Adderley
Only the lonely – Frank Sinatra
Angel eyes – Frank Sinatra
What’s new ? – Frank Sinatra
Willow weep for me – Frank Sinatra
Guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry – Frank Sinatra
Ebb tide – Frank Sinatra
One for my baby – Frank Sinatra
So what – Miles Davis
All blues – Miles Davis
Flameco sketches – Miles Davis
It never entered my mind – Miles Davis
Trane’s Blues – Miles Davis
Ahmad’s Blues – Miles Davis
Better git it in your soul – Charles Mingus
Goodbye pork pie hat – Charles Mingus
Bird calls – Charles Mingus
Fables of faubus – Charles Mingus
Lonely woman – Ornette Coleman
Eventually – Ornette Coleman
Focus on sanity – Ornette Coleman
Wednesday night prayer meeting – Charles Mingus
My Jelly Roll Soul – Charles Mingus
Eh’s flat ah’s flat too – Charles Mingus
Giant steps – John Coltrane
Syeeda’s song flute – John Coltrane
Naima – John Coltrane
D-Natural blues – Wes Montgomery
Polka dots and moonbeams – Wes Montgomery
West coast blues – Wes Montgomery
Ramblin‘ – Ornette Coleman
Forerunner – Ornette Coleman
Una muy bonita – Ornette Coleman
Change of the Century – Ornette Coleman
Solea – Miles Davis
Ode to Charlie Parker – Eric Dolphy
Far cry – Eric Dolphy
Tenderly – Eric Dolphy
My favorite things – John Coltrane
Stolen moments – Oliver Nelson
Cascades – Oliver Nelson
Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman
Africa – John Coltrane
Greensleeves – John Coltrane
Song of the underground railroad – John Coltrane
Gloria’s step – Bill Evans
My man’s gone now – Bill Evans
All of you – Bill Evans
My foolish heart – Bill Evans
Waltz for Debby – Bill Evans
My romance – Bill Evans
Milestones – Bill Evans
Ole – John Coltrane
Aisha – John Coltrane
Chasin‘ the Trane – John Coltrane
Desafinado – Stan Getz
Samba triste – Stan Getz
Samba de uma nota so – Stan Getz
Ysabel’s table dance – Charles Mingus
Los mariachis – Charles Mingus
You don’t know what love is – John Coltrane
Nancy – John Coltrane
I guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry – Dexter Gordon
Track A – Charles Mingus
Track C – Charles Mingus
Mode B – Charles Mingus
Mode C – Charles Mingus
India – John Coltrane
Impressions – John Coltrane
My one and only love – John Coltrane
Lush life – John Coltrane
Willow weep for me – Dexter Gordon
A night in Tunisia – Dexter Gordon
I X love – Charles Mingus
Mood indigo – Charles Mingus
Better get hit in yo‘ soul – Charles Mingus
The girl from Ipanema – Stan Getz
Desafinado – Stan Getz
Corcovado – Stan Getz
Hat and beard – Eric Dolphy
Something sweet, something tender – Eric Dolphy
Afro blue – John Coltrane
The promise – John Coltrane
Alabama – John Coltrane
Central Park West – John Coltrane
Equinox – John Coltrane
Refuge – Andrew Hill
Flight 19 – Andrew Hill
Dedication – Andrew Hill
Ghosts (Second variation) – Albert Ayler
Juju – Wayne Shorter
House of Jade – Wayne Shorter
Mahjong – Wayne Shorter
Wise one – John Coltrane
Acknowledgement – John Coltrane
Resolution – John Coltrane
Psalm – John Coltrane
Ascension – John Coltrane
Witch hunt – Wayne Shorter
Speak no evil – Wayne Shorter
Infant eyes – Wayne Shorter
Art Blakey: Moanin‘
Chet Baker: Let’s get lost
Horace Silver: Que pasa
Catta – Bobby Hutcherson
Ghetto lights – Bobby Hutcherson
Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock
Dolphin dance – Herbie Hancock
E.S.P. – Miles Davis
Eighty-one – Miles Davis
Heliocentric – Sun Ra
Other worlds – Sun Ra
Nebulae – Sun Ra
No Blues – Wes Montgomery
Unit 7 – Wes Montgomery
Four on six – Wes Montgomery
Impressions – Wes Montgomery
No Tonic Pres – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
From Bechet, Byas and Fats – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rip, Rig and Panic – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The father and the son and the holy ghost – John Coltrane
Love – John Coltrane
The sun myth – Sun Ra
Zoltan – Larry Young
The Moontrane – Larry Young
Unit structure / As of now / Section – Cecil Taylor
Tales (8 whisps) – Cecil Taylor
Conquistador – Cecil Taylor
Tourist point of view – Duke Ellington
Isfahan – Duke Ellington
Mount Harissa – Duke Ellington
Blue pepper (Far east of the blues) – Duke Ellington
Ad lib on Nippon – Duke Ellington
Circle – Miles Davis
Footprints – Miles Davis
Freedom Jazz Dance – Miles Davis
A portrait of Robert Thompson (as a young man) – Archie Shepp
Passion dance – McCoy Tyner
For John Coltrane – Albert Ayler
Truth is marching in – Albert Ayler
Upper egypt & lower egypt – Pharoah Sanders
Love cry – Albert Ayler
Ghosts – Albert Ayler
Omega – Albert Ayler
Bells – Albert Ayler
Universal indians – Albert Ayler
Indian Lady – Don Ellis
Turkish bath – Don Ellis
Machine gun (Second take) – Peter Brötzmann Octet
Responsible (Second take) – Peter Brötzmann Octet
Matrix – Chick Corea
Now he sings, now he sobs – Chick Corea
Windows – Chick Corea
The black and crazy Blues – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The inflated tear – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Creole Love Call – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
East – Pat Martino
Mademoiselle Mabry – Miles Davis
Vashkar – Tony Williams Lifetime
Something spiritual – Tony Williams Lifetime
Shhh / Peaceful – Miles Davis
The creator has a masterplan – Pharoah Sanders
Fat mama – Herbie Hancock
Fat Albert Rotunda – Herbie Hancock
Song for Che – Charlie Haden
Music is the healing force of the universe – Albert Ayler
Drudgery – Albert Ayler
Bitches brew – Miles Davis
Miles runs the Voodoo down – Miles Davis
Ptah, the El Daoud – Alice Coltrane
Ostinato (Suite for Angela) – Herbie Hancock
Journey in Satchidananda – Alice Coltrane
Isis and Osiris – Alice Coltrane
Yesternow – Miles Davis
Astral travelling – Pharoah Sanders
Thembi – Pharoah Sanders
Meeting of the spirits – Mahavishnu Orchestra
Dawn – Mahavishnu Orchestra
The dance of Maya – Mahavishnu Orchestra
You know, you know – Mahavishnu Orchestra
Hotel overture – Carla Bley
Escalator over the hill – Carla Bley
Businessmen – Carla Bley
Detective writer daughter – Carla Bley
Smalltown agonist – Carla Bley
Little pony soldier – Carla Bley
A.I.R. (All India Radio) – Carla Bley
Rawalpindi blues – Carla Bley
… and it’s again – Carla Bley
Sleeping giant – Herbie Hancock
What game shall we play today – Chick Corea
Sometime ago – La fiesta – Chick Corea
Universal Consciousness – Alice Coltrane
Battle at Armageddon – Alice Coltrane
Hare Krishna – Alice Coltrane
North star – Oregon
Sail – Oregon
Naiads – Oregon
The silence of a candle – Oregon
Skies of America – Ornette Coleman
The good life – Ornette Coleman
Holiday for my heroes – Ornette Coleman
Sunday in America – Ornette Coleman
The moors – Weather Report
Medley: Vertical Invader /T.H./ Dr. honoris causa – Weather Report
A prayer for my family – McCoy Tyner
Sahara – McCoy Tyner
In Front – Keith Jarrett
Lalene – Keith Jarrett
Starbright – Keith Jarrett
What are you doing for the rest of your life – Pat Martino
On the corner – Miles Davis
Thinkin‘ one thing and doin‘ another – Miles Davis
Black satin – Miles Davis
Helen Butte – Miles Davis
Mr. Freedom X – Miles Davis
Light as a feather – Chick Corea
Spain – Chick Corea
Four winds – Dave Holland
Conference of the birds – Dave Holland
Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro – Dollar Brand
The moon – Dollar Brand
Hornets – Herbie Hancock
Saturn – Sun Ra
Enlightenment – Sun Ra
Rocket Number Nine take off for the Planet Venus – Sun Ra
We travel the spaceways – Sun Ra
Yucatan – Sun Ra
Otherness blue – Sun Ra
Quadrant 4 – Billy Cobham
Spectrum – Billy Cobham
Stratus – Billy Cobham
Red Baron – Billy Cobham
Bremen, July 12 1973 Part II – Keith Jarrett
Ensenada – Bennie Maupin
The jewel in the lotus – Bennie Maupin
Tide pool – Oregon
Witchi-tai-to – Oregon
Ghost beads – Oregon
Margueritte – Oregon
Nubian sundance – Weather Report
Mysterious traveller – Weather Report
Jungle book – Weather Report
Moja (Part I) – Miles Davis
Wili (Part II) – Miles Davis
NNE (Part I) – Miles Davis
Spiral Dance – Keith Jarrett
Long as you know you’re living yours – Keith Jarrett
The windup – Keith Jarrett
Vein melter – Herbie Hancock
He loved him madly – Miles Davis
Rated X – Miles Davis
Calypso Frelimo – Miles Davis
Part I – Keith Jarrett
Part II b – Keith Jarrett
Young and foolish – Bill Evans
Some other time – Bill Evans
Waltz for Debby – Bill Evans
You don’t know what love is – Bill Evans
You must believe in spring – Bill Evans
Who can I turn to (when nobody needs me) – Bill Evans
Over Birkerot – Terje Rypdal
Rolling Stone – Terje Rypdal
The pilgrim and the stars – Enrico Rava
By the sea – Enrico Rava
Brown Rice – Don Cherry
The Romantic Warrior – Chick Corea
Duel of the jester and the tyrant – Chick Corea
Donna Lee – Jaco Pastorius
Continuum – Jaco Pastorius
Portrait of Tracy – Jaco Pastorius
(Used to be a) Cha-Cha – Jaco Pastorius
Birdland – Weather Report
A remark you made – Weather Report
Theme from a symphony (Variation One) – Ornette Coleman
Mediterranean sundance – Al Di Meola
Race with devil on spanish highway – Al Di Meola
Theme from Captain Black – James Blood Ulmer
Revelation march – James Blood Ulmer
Revealing – James Blood Ulmer
San Lorenzo – Pat Metheny
Phase dance – Pat Metheny
April wind – Pat Metheny
Questar – Keith Jarrett
My Song – Keith Jarrett
The journey home – Keith Jarrett
The Wakefield capers – Lol Coxhill
Loverman – Lol Coxhill
Sueno con Mexico – Pat Metheny
I do it for your love – Bill Evans
The other side of midnight (Noelle‘ Theme) – Bill Evans
Buddy Bolden’s Blues – Air
(Cross the) heartland – Pat Metheny
The search – Pat Metheny
Senor Mouse – Chick Corea
Bud Powell – Chick Corea
Endless trouble, endless pleasure – Chick Corea
African Marketplace – Dollar Brand
One for Eric – Jack DeJohnette
Two folk songs – Pat Metheny
The bat – Pat Metheny
Turn around – Pat Metheny
Every day (I thank you) – Pat Metheny
Goin‘ ahead – Pat Metheny
Ming – David Murray
Dewey’s circle – David Murray
A Ballad for Rita – Fred Anderson
The Bull – Fred Anderson
Incident on South Street – Lounge Lizards
Harlem nocturne – Lounge Lizards
Do the wrong thing – Lounge Lizards
Well you needn’t – Lounge Lizards
Demented – Lounge Lizards
Epistrophy – Lounge Lizards
B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine) – Bill Evans
Folk song – Garbarek/Haden/Gismonti
As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls – Pat Metheny
September Fifteenth – Pat Metheny
It’s for you – Pat Metheny
Part I – Keith Jarrett
Heartland – Keith Jarrett
Are you going with me ? – Pat Metheny
James – Pat Metheny
The Rapids – Oregon
Impending bloom – Oregon
Els segadors – Charlie Haden
The Ballad Of The Fallen – Charlie Haden
The People United Will Never Be Defeated – Charlie Haden
Travels – Pat Metheny
Song for Bilbao – Pat Metheny
San Lorenzo – Pat Metheny
Little Red House – James Blood Ulmer
Odyssey – James Blood Ulmer
Aerial Boundaries – Michael Hedges
After the gold rush – Michael Hedges
Spare change – Michael Hedges
Samurai Hee-Haw – Marc Johnson
Resolution – Marc Johnson
The big gundown – John Zorn
Poverty – John Zorn
Erotico – John Zorn
Endangered species – Ornette Coleman
Kathelin Gray – Ornette Coleman
Long time no see – Ornette Coleman
Police people – Ornette Coleman
The good life – Ornette Coleman
Power Spot – Jon Hassell
Wing melodies – Jon Hassell
Blind Willie – Sonny Sharrock
Broken toys – Sonny Sharrock
Black bottom – Sonny Sharrock
Princess and the magician – Sonny Sharrock
Like voices of sleeping birds – Sonny Sharrock
They enter the dream – Sonny Sharrock
Sea glass – Michael Brecker
The cost of living – Michael Brecker
Blue – Terje Rypdal
Minuano (Six eight) – Pat Metheny
Last train home – Pat Metheny
Portrait of a Romantic – John Surman
The wizard’s song – John Surman
I didn’t know what time it was – Cassandra Wilson
Sweet Lorraine – Cassandra Wilson
Blue skies – Cassandra Wilson
Rain village – Hank Roberts
Choqueno – Hank Roberts
Lucky’s lament – Hank Roberts
3 wishes – Ornette Coleman
Happy hour – Ornette Coleman
Virgin beauty – Ornette Coleman
Singing in the shower – Ornette Coleman
Desert players – Ornette Coleman
Endless – Keith Jarrett
Promises kept – Sonny Sharrock
As we used to sing – Sonny Sharrock
Once upon a time – Sonny Sharrock
Part A – Charles Gayle
Part C – Charles Gayle
Hustle bustle – Wynton Marsalis
Down the avenue – Wynton Marsalis
I see the light (vocal) – Wynton Marsalis
Spring Yaounde – Wynton Marsalis
Swingdown, swingtown – Wynton Marsalis
Modern vistas (As far as the eye can see) – Wynton Marsalis
Is it sweet ? – Bill Frisell
Strange meeting – Bill Frisell
Jimmy Carter (Part 2) – Bill Frisell
Amarillo Barbados – Bill Frisell
Monica Jane – Bill Frisell
Julius Hemphill – Bill Frisell
The red one – Pat Metheny
Everybody’s party – Pat Metheny
Message to my friend – Pat Metheny
Blue sun – Mark Isham
Song for Bilbao – Michael Brecker
Our spanish love song – Pat Metheny
First song – Pat Metheny
Spiritual – Pat Metheny
Toward the margins – Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble
Turbulent mirror – Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble
Born cross-eyed (Remembering Fuller) – Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble
Nothing ever was, anyway (Version 1) – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
Butterflies that I feel inside me – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
Open, to love – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
Dreams (If time weren’t) – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
You’ve left me – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
Nothing ever was, anyway (Version 2) – Crispell/Peacock/Motian
A go go – John Scofield
Boozer – John Scofield
Kubrick – John Scofield
Hottentot – John Scofield
Big shoe – Bill Frisell
My Buffalo girl – Bill Frisell
Shenandoah – Bill Frisell
That was then – Bill Frisell
Poem for Eva – Bill Frisell
Dodge the Dodo – Esbjörn Svensson Trio
From Gagarin’s Point Of View – Esbjörn Svensson Trio
From the body – Keith Jarrett
Inside out – Keith Jarrett
Serenade for the Renegade – Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Behind the Yashmak – Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Suitcase – Vandermark 5
Vehicle – Vandermark 5
Last night the moon came – Jon Hassell
Clairvoyance – Jon Hassell
Sinks when she rounds the bend – Mary Halvorson
Forgotten men in silver – Mary Halvorson
Love in eight colors – Mary Halvorson