The Standard Jazz Repertoire

INDEX: [ Real Titles | Humorous Titles ]

What is Repertoire?

NOUN:

1. The stock of songs, plays, operas, readings, or other pieces that a player or company is prepared to perform. 2. The class of compositions in a genre: has excellent command of the chanteuse repertoire. 3. The range or number of skills, aptitudes, or special accomplishments of a particular person or group.

ETYMOLOGY:

French répertoire, from Old French, from Late Latin repertrium.

Here is a site where you can find out which fake books contain which song: The Fake Book Index - Seventh String Software

Song List

There are a lot of possible songs that can be includes in the jazz musicians repertoire. Here are a few that every jazz musician might and should know.

A

A Child Is Born
A Foggy Day
A Go Go
A Night In Tunisia
Afro Blue
Afternoon in Paris
All Blues
All My Lovin'
All My Tomorrows
All of Me
All of You
All The Things You Are
All The Things You Are
Alone Together
Anthropology
Au Privave
Autumn Leaves

B

Back Home In Indiania
Billie's Bounce
Birk's Works
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Blue In Green
Blue Monk
Blue Train
Blues for Alice
Bluesette
Body and Soul

C

Call Me
Caravan
Cherokee
Chitlin's Con Carne - C Blues
C Jam Blues
Confirmation
Countdown
Corcovado
Crazy
Cute

D

Darn That Dream
Days Of Wine And Roses (The)
Desafinado
Donna Lee
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Doxy

E

Eleanor Rigby
Embraceable You

F

Fly Me To The Moon
Four
Four on Six
Freedie Freeloader

G

Georgia
Giant Steps
Girl from Ipanema (The)
God Bless' The Child
Good Bye Pork Pie Hat
Groovin' High
Groove Yard

H

Have You Met Miss Jones
Here's That Rainy Day
High High the Moon
How Do You Keep The Music Playing
How Insensative

I

I Can't Get Started
I Loves You Porgy
I Remember Clifford
I'll Remember April
Impressions
Invitation

J

Jersey Bounce
Jordu
Joy Spring

K

Killer Joe

L

Lady Bird
Lady Is A Tramp (The)
Le Petite Mambo
Lover Man
Love Supreme
Lush Life

M

Maiden Voyage
Meditation
Michelle
Midnight Blue
Milestones
Misty
Moanin'
Moondance
Moonlight In Vermont
Moon River
Moonlight Senerade
More
My Favorite Things
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine

N

Nardis
Niama
Night and Day

O

On A Clear Day
Green Dolphin Street (On)
Once I Loved
One Note Samba
Ornithology
O'Barquino (Little Boat)

P

Q

R

'Round Midnight
Road Song (The)

S

Satin Doll
Scrapple The Apple
Shadow of Your Smile (The)
Shiny Stockings
Sidewinder
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Soft Winds
Solar
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Song For My Father
So What
Spanish Eyes
Spring Is Here
St. Thomas
Stardust
Stella By Starlight
Stompin' At The Savoy
Straight No Chaser
Suger
Summer Samba (So Nice)
Summertime
Sunny
Sweet Georgia Brown

T

Take Five
Take the 'A' Train
Tenderly
The Way You Look Tonight
There Will Never Be Another You
They Can't Take That Away From Me
This Masquerade
Tune Up

U

V

Valse Hot

W

Watch What Happens
Watermelon Man
Wave
West Coast Blues
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
What Is This Thing Called Love
What's New
When I Fall In Love
When Sunny Gets Blue
Witchcraft

X

Y

Z

Humorous Song Names

Here is a list of songs names from recent postings to the Jazz Guitar newsgroup: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz.

Submissions by: Joe Finn, Doug Allen, Joey Goldstien, Jimmy Bruno. (If I forgot someone just let me know.)

A

A Christmas Schlong
A Day In The Life of a Mule
A Day in the Wife of a Ghoul
A Month in Tunisia
A White Sportcoat and a Pink Crustacean
Afternoon in Pear-ass
Ah, Sweet Mastery of Wife
Ah, Sweet Misery of Lice
All Booze
All the things You Mar
All Them Leaves
All You Think You Are
Always Some Thin Hair to Remind Me
Angel Thighs
Angle Eyes
Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Autumn Heaves

B

Baby Won't You Please Go Home
Barbrawho?
Beaver
Black Orifice
Blame it on Vermouth
Butt Beautiful

C

Can't Elope, Ivan
Can't Help Shoving That Fan of Mine
Cherries Stink and Chapel Possums Bite
Chew, Chew Your Lugi
Christmastime Means Beer

D

Die, Anne
Do Nothing Till You Hear Bums Pee
Do You Know The Way To Sam's Buffet
Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
Don't Flame Me
Don't Get a Brown, Dutch, Penny Whore
Don't Get a Clown Much Anymore
Do You Know What It Means To Mess Your Blue Jeans?
Dressing Me Mucho
Dumb Pain in my Spine

E

Emily for gay guys = Emile
Everything I Had Is Yours

Ellington Medley:

Sat-on Doll
Prelude to a Quiche
Constipated Lady
He's Got a Badge and That Ain't Good

F

Foodprints
Fry me a Liver

G

Gee Baby Ain't I Glued to You
Giant Schlepps
Girl From West Covina
Girl with Emphysema
Give Me the Sinful Life
Glue Bossa

H

Harbor Lice
Have A Tequila
Have you Wet, Miss Jones?
Have Yourself a Hairy Little Swiss Miss
Hello Dowry
Hello Young Losers
Honey Suck My Hose

I

I Caught You Under My Twin
I Dismember You
I Got Kicked Out By You
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Pants
I Laid a Fart,in San Francisco
I Love Pear-ass
I Only Have Ice For You
I'd Love To Be Loved by Two
I'd Love You More if You'd Ever Go
I'll Dismember April
I'll Fake Romance
I'm Getting Cement All Over You
I'm Getting Sort of Mental Over You
I've Thrown a Custard in Her Face
If I Wore A Bell
In The Nude
Inflatable You
Isn't Tit Romantic?

J

Juan, Son of Farrah
Just Fiends

K

Killing Me Softly With Her Thong

L

Lady of Pain
Let's Brawl and Shove
Level Fake Hair
Like a Blind, Stoned Cowboy
Lullabye of Nerd Land
Lush Wife

M

Medication
Mel'll Drain Ya'
Midnight at the Boat Races
Moishe, Moishe Moishe
Moonlight in Vermouth
Mr. Licky
Music To Watch Girls Bi
Must Hang Sally
My Cart Belongs To Daddy
My Favorite Flings
My Old Phlegm
My One and Only Glove
My Phony Valentine

N

Neuralgia in Times Square

O

Oh, You Crazy Goon
Oil of Me
Old Gang Sign
On A Queer Day
One O'Clock Dump
Oy Ve Maria

P

Paint Jane's Infirmary
Peg Am I Hard
Plague of my Heart
Plastical Glass
Poisoner of Love

Q

R

Ricki Don't Bruise that Lumber
Rin Tin Tin Deo

S

Satan Doll
Sealed With a Knish
Send Him the Gowns
She's Phony That Way
Shit Could Happen to You
Simple Mental Journey
Sit On A Happy Face
Sleazy Living
Slightly Out of Spoons
Slime Every Fountain
Some Hair on My Corned Beef
Someday My Pants Will Come
Someone to Squat Over Me
Stella by Headlights
Stolen Comments
Summer Nose (The)
Summertime and Her Living Room's Sleazy

T

That Old Squealing
The Chateau Of Your Smile
The Craze of Dining Noses
The Days of Whining Hosers
The Gentile Rain
The Girl With Emphezema
The Last Time I Saw Pear-ass
The Object of my Infection
The Sheep of Araby
The Summer Nose
The Touch of Your Whips
The Workin' Girl Talk Son
There Will Be Another You (Hindu version)
There Will Never Be Another Yew
This Nearly Was Mime
This Time the Cream's On Me
Three Groins in a Fountain
Too Old Folks
Turdland

U

Unchain Melanie
Unchanged Malady

V

Violence or Your Furs

W

Wash What Happens
We Bitched, Bothered and Belittled
Whacked Tragic Woman
What Are You Doing with the Breast of My Wife?
When I Look Into Your Thighs
When You Swish a Spawning Jar
When Your Liver has Gone
While My Qatar Gently Weeps
Who Can I Turn On?
Who's Soggy Now?
Will You Still Be Slime?
Without a Schlong

X

Y

You and the Night and the Mucus
You Bite Up My Wife
You Can Descend on Me
You Don't Blow Me
You Go For My Head
You Go For My Head
You Schlepped Out Of a Dream
You'd Be So Sleazy To Love
You're Somebody 'Till Nobody Loves You