Jazz Standards Origins, History, Chord Progressions, and CD Recommendations

Songs and Instrumentals

Preserving jazz history by documenting the origins of the standards

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Origin

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Early 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s-2000

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Year

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505	1918	Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child		R
205	1919	Baby Won't You Please Come Home	J	R
823	1919	Fidgety Feet
267	1919	Indian Summer	J	R
204	1919	Royal Garden Blues	J
364	1919	Someday Sweetheart		R
791	1919	Sugar Blues		R
874	1919	The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise		R

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