As you know, I’m in the process of putting together a jazz ensemble. I’ve been digging around, figuring out songs to put on the set list. In the process, I’ve been re-discovering some songs I really just love. Songs like “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” by Cole Porter and “My Funny Valentine” by Rodgers and Hart. Below are my 66 of my favorites!  Why 66, you ask? Well, it’s just how many were really moving me this week. It also had such a nice “Route 66” ring to it! There are probably 1 or 2 on the list that aren’t officially jazz standards (Nina Simone), but I couldn’t resist including them. What are your favorites? Have any recommendations of songs I should add to this list and maybe add to my live set?

1. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
2. I Could Write a Book
3. My Baby Just Cares for Me
4. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
5. My Funny Valentine
6. All of Me
7. Body and Soul
8. But Not For Me
9. You Go To My Head
10. Round Midnight
11. Misty
12. It Had To Be You
13. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
14. Blue Skies
15. For Sentimental Reasons
16. Take The A Train
17. They Can’t Take That Away from Me
18. Someone to Watch Over Me
19. St. James Infirmary
20. Our Love is Here To Stay
21. Straighten Up and Fly Right
22. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
23. Ain’t Misbehavin’
24. Stompin’ at the Savoy
25. Satin Doll
26. Blue Gardenia
27. Autumn Leaves
28. Lullaby of Birdland
29. High How the Moon
30. Black Coffee
31. Night in Tunisia
32. I Wan’t a Little Sugar in My Bowl
33. Summertime
34. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
35. I’ve Got a Crush On You
36. Black Coffee
37. Come Rain or Come Shine
38. My Baby Just Cares For Me
39. Feelin Good
40. A Tisket a Tasket
41. Just One of Those Things
42. Stella by Starlight
43. Witchcraft
44. Skylark
45. Girl from Ipanema
46. Nice Work if You Can Get It
47. Stormy Weather
48. Tea for Two
49. Cheek to Cheek
50. (I’ve got you) Under my Skin
51. Honeysuckle Rose
52. Fly Me to the Moon
53. Stompin at the Savoy
54. PaperMoon
55. When I fall in Love
56. Someone to Watch
57. The Nearness of You
58. Old Devil Moon
59. Autumn in New York
60. Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
61. Embraceable
62. La Vie En Rose
63. Lush Life
64. At Last
65. Birdland
66. La Mer