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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459	1940	All Too Soon
387	1940	All or Nothing At All				R
602	1940	Blueberry Hill				R
447	1940	The Breeze and I				R
366	1940	Broadway
549	1940	Cabin in the Sky				R
233	1940	Cottontail			J	R
949	1940	Easy Does It
941	1940	Fine and Mellow
803	1940	Five O'clock Whistle				R
256	1940	Flying Home			J	R
460	1940	Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)				R
21	1940	How High the Moon	C		J	R	S	A	O
455	1940	I Could Write a Book				R
414	1940	I Hear Music				R
227	1940	I Hear a Rhapsody			J
140	1940	In a Mellotone	C		J			A
181	1940	It Never Entered My Mind	C		J	R		A
219	1940	Lester Leaps In			J
804	1940	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square		M		R
79	1940	Polka Dots and Moonbeams	C		J	R	S	A	O
562	1940	Seven Come Eleven
314	1940	Soft Winds
681	1940	Strange Fruit				R
214	1940	Taking a Chance on Love			J	R
679	1940	Tickle Toe				R
696	1940	Tuxedo Junction				R
348	1940	When You Wish Upon a Star				R
404	1940	White Christmas				R
328	1940	Will You Still Be Mine				R
919	1940	You Are My Sunshine				R
96	1940	You Stepped Out of a Dream	C		J	R	S	A	O
597	1941	9:20 Special
448	1941	Air Mail Special
294	1941	Besame Mucho			J
335	1941	Bewitched				R
207	1941	Blues in the Night			J	R
911	1941	Brazil				R
914	1941	Chattanooga Choo Choo				R
221	1941	Chelsea Bridge			J	R
237	1941	Day Dream			J
521	1941	Don't Take Your Love from Me				R
910	1941	Dream Dancing				R
773	1941	Ev'rything I Love				R
102	1941	Everything Happens to Me	C		J	R		A
146	1941	Flamingo	C		J	R		A
170	1941	God Bless the Child	C		J	R		A
535	1941	Goin' to Chicago Blues
450	1941	How About You				R
61	1941	I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)	C		J	R	S	A	O