Following on yesterday’s post about my experience in Steve Kelly’s jazz history course, here are the best ten songs that I heard for the first time in the course.
10. Coleman Hawkins, “Body and Soul” (1939)
9. Nina Simone, “Love Me Or Leave Me” (ca. 1965)
8. Count Basie Orchestra, “One O’ Clock Jump” (1937)
7. Nat King Cole, “Just You, Just Me” (1957)
6. The Modern Jazz Quartet, “Django” (1960)
5. Count Basie & Jimmy Rushing, “I Left My Baby” (1939)
4. Joshua Redman, “Moose the Mooche” (1993)
3. Benny Goodman Orchestra, featuring Charlie Christian, “Solo Flight”
2. Duke Ellington, “Sepia Panorama” (1940)
1. Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues” (original Armstrong version, 1928)