Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Main Stem)

Main Stem (1942)

Origin and Chart Information

Currently, 1000 jazz standards are ranked and have web pages (click on Songs for the full list).

The top 100 are fully documented:

Year	Rank	Title
1930	1	“Body and Soul”
1939	2	“All the Things You Are”
1935	3	“Summertime”
1944	4	“'Round Midnight”
1935	5	“I Can't Get Started (with You)”
1937	6	“My Funny Valentine”
1942	7	“Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)”
1930	8	“What Is This Thing Called Love?”
1933	9	“Yesterdays”
1946	10	“Stella By Starlight”

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Written by the Same Composer or Team...

This section shows the jazz standards written by the same writing team. Click on a name to see all of a writer's jazz standards.

Mack David and Duke Ellington
Year	Rank	Title
1945	363	“I’m Just a Lucky So and So”
1944	452	“Don’t You Know I Care?”

Duke Ellington and Milt Gabler
Year	Rank	Title
1940	140	“In a Mellotone”

Duke Ellington and Lee Gaines
Year	Rank	Title
1941	231	“Just Squeeze Me (But Don’t Tease Me)”

Duke Ellington and Don George
Year	Rank	Title
1944	888	“I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues”

Duke Ellington and Jon Hendricks
Year	Rank	Title
1940	233	“Cottontail”

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges
Year	Rank	Title
1938	738	“Jeep Is Jumpin’”

Duke Ellington and Nick A Kenny
Year	Rank	Title
1933	566	“Drop Me off in Harlem”

Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1932	84	“It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”
1937	629	“Azure”
1929	714	“The Mooche”
1930	932	“Ring Dem Bells”

Duke Ellington and Bob Russell
Year	Rank	Title
1943	93	“Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me”
1942	104	“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
1944	500	“I Didn’t Know About You”
1943	546	“Warm Valley”

Duke Ellington and Carl Sigman
Year	Rank	Title
1940	459	“All Too Soon”

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Year	Rank	Title
1939	439	“Something to Live For”
1950	567	“Love You Madly”
1964	718	“Isfahan”
1944	829	“Star Crossed Lovers”

Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster
Year	Rank	Title
1941	61	“I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)”

Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1931	161	“Mood Indigo”

Harry Carney, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1930	369	“Rockin’ in Rhythm”

Eddie De Lange, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1934	136	“Solitude”

Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1938	46	“Prelude to a Kiss”

Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz and Irving Mills
Year	Rank	Title
1935	19	“In a Sentimental Mood”

Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish
Year	Rank	Title
1933	31	“Sophisticated Lady”

Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines and Billy Strayhorn
Year	Rank	Title
1945	461	“Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’”

Duke Ellington, Don George and Harry James
Year	Rank	Title
1945	811	“Everything but You”

Duke Ellington, John Latouche and Billy Strayhorn
Year	Rank	Title
1941	237	“Day Dream”

Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer and Billy Strayhorn
Year	Rank	Title
1953	45	“Satin Doll”

Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol
Year	Rank	Title
1936	17	“Caravan”

Duke Ellington, Sid Kuller and Paul Francis Webster
Year	Rank	Title
1941	935	“Jump for Joy”

Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges and Harry James
Year	Rank	Title
1944	229	“I’m Beginning to See the Light”

Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Henry Nemo and John Redmond
Year	Rank	Title
1938	152	“I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart”