top 10 jazz tunes played in jam sessions

[digital]

Hi all,
what are the top 10 jazz tunes played in jam sessions?
notice that I make a diffrence between jazz tunes and popular tunes.
popular : body and soul, bye bye blackbird etc..
jazz: shorter tunes, monk , parker etc...

I'm asking only about the jazz once.

thanks.

[Hard Bop Cutter]

Take Five
Foot Steps
One For Daddy-O
Tenor Madness
Rhythm Changes...i guess its pop, but it gets played alot.
Stella By Starlight
Night in Tunasia.
saints..Marchin' in.
There is no greater love.
Autumn Leaves.

......So What....admit it, even though no one ever performs it, you all know that you jam on it every time you cut.

-Nate

[Dick Trickle]

I don't know about saying a standard is a pop tune and then take five is a jazz tune. For my brain it's the other way around... so I'll just throw out a list of tunes that I think are a good set for a jam session.

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
There will Never be Another You
Ruby My Dear
I Got Rhythm
Donna Lee
Out of Nowhere
Foolin' Myself
The Nearness of You
All The Things You Are
In Walked Bud

Most of these are nice and straight forward enough to go smoothly... I cringe if someone calls Take Five or Footprints or anything by Mingus unless the players really fit with the stuff.
I am really liking the following tunes as new prospects to call up:

Star Eyes
If I Should Loose You
I Mean You
Confirmation
Morning Star
Serenade For a Cuckoo
I Remember You
Isfahan (or anything by Strayhorn, but Lush Life only as a duo with bowed bass)
Lennie's Pennies
Cherokee (anyone ever do that tea for two thing with the bridge? It's seeming to help me out with getting it to stick together a little better.)

Well there are so many to choose from. This is hard to get a good list right off the top of my head. These are what I have been working on though.

[gnhrtg]

All the Things You Are
What is this Thing Called Love
Stella by Starlight
Someday My Prince Will Come

the ones I really pushed to be included when I used to play more were:

Solar
Bemsha Swing
Blue Monk
Valse Hot

There would almost always be a couple of tunes based on rhythm changes and blues - in Bb or F mostly. I put Blue Monk up there because with Monk tunes, I always enjoyed playing off the melodies and not the chords.

[Samuel]

Not counting blues heads, rhythm-change heads or tunes with Broadway lineage, I'd also include:

St. Thomas
Four
Wave
Desafinado
Song For My Father
Blue Bossa
Scrapple From the Apple
Donna Lee
500 Miles High
Dolphin Dance

[Jeremy215]

Cherokee (anyone ever do that tea for two thing with the bridge? It's seeming to help me out with getting it to stick together a little better.)

What "Tea for Two" thing? Could you explain how this reworking of the Cherokee bridge goes? I'm always looking for new stuff to throw in over those tunes.

Thanks

Oh yea...and jazz tunes called at jam sessions...Thought that I'd add Inner Urge, Yes and No, This I Dig of You, Firm Roots and Solar to the list.

[Dick Trickle]

Parker learned to play the bridge on Cherokee by sumperimposing the melodic motif from Tea for Two... most players shyed away from the bridge of Cherokee up until Bird and others around his timeline had popularized it. But check it out... you can hear that little reference over the Cherokee changes in a lot of Birds playing. It's more a melodic device to keep a lot of motion (for me), for Parker, I think it helped him center that bridge and get his footing on how to think about the tune more melodicaly.

[Egon]

Does anyone even still go to Jam sessions?

[CRE]

Does anyone even still go to Jam sessions?

Yes, jam sessions are still a great way to play with musicians you may not otherwise get a chance to play with. In New York the jam session scene is very hot. For example, I've jammed with Roy Hargrove, Roseanna Vitro and many others at jam sessions. And I've learned from them.

Incidentally, I'm a vocalist. What are some of the tunes that you guys would like to hear vocalists call at a jam session?

[Bruce Lindfield]

Does anyone even still go to Jam sessions?

Yup - I go to them every week!! The more people you play with the better, in terms of developing as a musician - if that was limited to only what paying gigs you could get, then most developing players are going to be seriously limiting their options!!

[Groovehigh]

Footprints
Milestones
Stella By Starlight
Take Five
Autumn Leaves

[graypencil]

4 various shapes and forms of blues structures ..

3 different variations on rhythm changes ( with differing bridges )

um ..

variations on "jada" or "its a wonderful world "

Stella

Cherokee ..

is that ten ??

[Jazz-in-Aust]

I am really liking the following tunes as new prospects to call up:

Star Eyes
If I Should Loose You
I Mean You
Confirmation
Morning Star
Serenade For a Cuckoo
I Remember You
Isfahan (or anything by Strayhorn, but Lush Life only as a duo with bowed bass)
Lennie's Pennies
Cherokee (anyone ever do that tea for two thing with the bridge? It's seeming to help me out with getting it to stick together a little better.)

Well there are so many to choose from. This is hard to get a good list right off the top of my head. These are what I have been working on though.[/QUOTE]

THANK YOU!! I have been trying to get Confirmation going for so long at my jam session! But because i'm a begginer, we play begginer's song, which bassically are all 12 bar blues

my top 10 are

Watermelon Man
Canteloupe Island (Rockmelon Island in Australia)
Doxy
Sonny Moon for Two
Tenor Madness
Chameleon
All the Things you Are
Now's the Time
Autumn Leaves
Blue Train

[flam_taps]

I've haven't been around to jam session in years, but in Pittsburgh we used to play stuff like "St. Thomas" and "Fungi Mamma" along with the Real Book standards.

[randalljazz]

whew! rip van winkle...

[clinthopson]

400 riffs based on "I Got Rhythm"
200 based on "Sweet Georgia Brown"