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Jazz great. This music is incredibly a lot of emotion, universal harmony and beauty. The site has collected for you 15 iconic jazz kompozitsiy.Unikalnost jazz as a music genre - in huge opportunities for improvisation and variation in how much you can invest in all notes. Therefore, Jazz has created the phenomenon of "standards" - recognized the composition to be in the repertoire of any jazzman. It is believed that a good jazz musician should know about two hundred standards. Who determines what is standard and what is not? Only time. Time and musicians, including one or another of jazz compositions in their repertoire.

In this article we have collected a dozen of the most famous and most beautiful jazz standards. Naturally, we could not cover the whole vast reservoir of this divine music, so traditionally invited to share in the comments of those compositions that do not leave you indifferent. Let's put together a collection of the best jazz.

Put on your headphones, sit back and let your day be as beautiful as the music.

SummertimeDzhordzh Gershwin

Surely no one doubted that it was with this great selection of standard begin.

Aria-jazz lullaby from the opera "Porgy and Bess" is filled with bliss and solar heat. It is believed that «Summertime» - an absolute record for the number of performances and recordings. An international group of collectors of this standard has collected 40,000 tracks "Summer Time", but the most popular (and in our opinion, the most advanced) version - version of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.





CaravanDyuk Ellington and Juan Tizol

Exotic Eastern ghostly sound in jazz composition - perhaps this contributed to the incredible popularity of the "Caravan." The melody is very simple, but the way it is laid out on tools and decorated counterpoint, as it is full of movement, can not help but impress.

We all know the standard for at least the cartoon "Well, wait a minute!", Where the tune Ellington cat show tricks in the circus. For this material, we chose a classic rendition of "Caravan" Duke Ellington and his orchestra.





Take FivePol Desmond

Calm and in a sense, languid standard «Take Five» was painted in the late 50s and was first recorded Quartet Dave Brubeck.

The composition, the name of which roughly translates as "take rest" also plays unusual for jazz size "five quarters." Under her well thought - check.





In The MoodGlenn Miller, Joe Garland, Andy Razafy

Eternal lyrics by Glenn Miller Orchestra - failsafe means to enhance the mood and get rid of all the blues. Cheerful composition napolennaya bravura sounds of saxophone and trombone, penetrates to the heart and causes smile.

«In The Mood» was included in the list of "One Hundred most important American musical works of the XX century».





Over The RainbowGarold Arlen

Dear Dorothy song from the movie "The Wizard of Oz" also became a jazz standard, thanks to the vast possibilities for variation and improvisation within the genre.

The most touching version of "Rainbow," which we've ever heard, sounded on the show «Britain's Got Talent» - six year old Connie Talbot shocked everyone. We took the artist Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version of the film "50 First Dates».





The Man I LoveDzhordzh Gershwin

Another masterpiece from the composer who has made an incredible amount for the development of music. Initially, dreamy ballad about the love that the heroine of the song certainly is about experiences a, was part of a satirical musical, but then was removed, and has gained popularity as an independent composition.

The brilliant performance of Liza Minelli song sounds particularly sensual.





Manha De Bonfil
CarnavalLuis
Brazilian bossa nova, which originated from a mixture of jazz and samba, has long been a part of the history of jazz and its best samples - standards of the genre.

Drawling song "Morning of the Carnival" first appeared in the famous film "Black Orpheus" and gained immense popularity, in fact, turned into a symbol of the bossa nova. She was part of and included in the repertoire of hundreds of performers - from Frank Sinatra and Joan Baez to Tori Amos.





Garota de IpanemaAntonio Carlos Jobim

Another bossa nova, inseparable from jazz standards. A sketch of a beautiful girl every day to the beach passing by enthusiastic but humble admirer, the assurances of Wikipedia, has the second largest number of cover versions, conceding only «Yesterday» The Beatles.





My Funny ValentineRichard Rogers

Composition about fun lover gained popularity after it recorded and included in the repertoire of Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and Chet Baker. Since then, her singing more than 600 performers. And besides, it is one of the most popular songs by 14 February.





StardustHoagi Carmichael

Standard from distant twenties, characterized as a "love song", as one of the recordable and rewritable in history - about a thousand versions. We chose a version of Nat King Cole, one of the kings of jazz performance.







Velazquez Besame MuchoKonsuelo

The famous dramatic song about the likely forthcoming separation and futile attempts to get enough of each other, in fairness, it is not jazz. This genre is called "Bolero" and was born in Cuba. But the song "Kiss me once" happy played many jazz musicians from Frank Sinatra to Diana Krall, so it is in this collection rightfully. Follow your heart, when you listen to, it can skip a few beats.







At LastMek Gordon and Harry Warren

The song, written for a musical, as often happens, had survived its roots. In 1942 it recorded the Glenn Miller Orchestra, by making the composition of the famous. A performance of Etta James in 1960 to commemorate this standard, which sang all and sundry, including Christina Aguilera and Beyonce. That James version was introduced in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Catharsis right from the first seconds is guaranteed.





Moon RiverGenri Mancini

Whatever song by the magnificent Louis Armstrong we take, it is the standard and the sample for the ages, but nevertheless we had to choose, that Armstrong was not too much, and we almost sobbing, abandoned «Go Down Moses» (which is Indeed spirituals) and «What A Wonderful World» («traditional pop"). "Moon River" no less worthy. From her evening breathes tranquility and harmony of the universe.







Georgia On My MindHoagi Carmichael

Lyrical declaration of love to the state of Georgia sung by many, but the most famous version belongs to Ray Charles, brilliant musician with a unique voice, whose homeland is the staff.

Do not fall in love with the southern US land, or at least do not understand the feelings of Ray Charles after this is simply impossible.





Feeling GoodEntoni Newley and Leslie Brikus

Jazz is almost a standard of 60 best Nina Simone sang his inimitable contralto. Another notable version belongs to Muse, but the expression and feelings invested in «Feeling Good» black eccentric Nina in 1965, causing many ants that gets cold.



Jingle BellsDzheyms Lord Pierpont

You might be surprised by this, but the "Jingle Bells", which millions of people sing in December, as an institution, it is also a jazz standard. Despite what was written in the middle of the XIX century, when the Jazz did not even smell.

Standard this song made numerous performance by jazz musicians - Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and dozens and dozens of great names.

We chose a ringing version of Natalie Cole. Let this cheerful Christmas song will help us as quickly as possible to urge the spring.





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