A Set List for Comping Standards Jazz Blues Style

[P_Jay]

Dear All
I haven’t posted for awhile because I reached yet another impasse with the jazz and stopped pretending that I could play or learn to play all the bebop sounds that I listened to and enjoyed. I stopped listening to Charlie and Wes and Joe and Pat and George et cetera et cetera. But like some mystic once mentioned, ‘you have to climb the mountain to realize why you didn’t have to climb it’ or, putting it another way, I already knew what I should be doing and so have come back to jazz blues. It talks to me. It’s always what I end up doing when I play; a combination of improvised riffs with chord based melody lines but rooted in a jazz 12 bar progression. So my question is this: What tunes (standards) would you recommend I work on that would lend themselves to chord/melody 12 bar jazz blues? For example I can hear, ‘Fly Me To the Moon’ as I type and its easy swing feel and chords are asking for a jazz blues comping under my vocals (I sing as well) so, if I was putting a set together (hopefully with a bass player if I can find one in this jazz desert I live in) what tunes should I put on the set list? I have three fake books; the Bb version New Real Book, The New Real Book in C (Bk2), and the Warner Just Jazz Real Book. A whole bunch of tunes waiting for me to give a cool jazz blues sounding swing to I think. So all recommendations appreciated.
Best regards
P_Jay

[gersdal]

I'm not sure I understand your question. You post under comping, and talk about comping, but when you get down to your question that is about chord melody:

Originally Posted by P_Jay

So my question is this: What tunes (standards) would you recommend I work on that would lend themselves to chord/melody 12 bar jazz blues?

Assuming we are talking about comping...

Originally Posted by P_Jay

For example I can hear, ‘Fly Me To the Moon’ as I type and its easy swing feel and chords are asking for a jazz blues comping under my vocals (I sing as well) so, if I was putting a set together (hopefully with a bass player if I can find one in this jazz desert I live in) what tunes should I put on the set list? I have three fake books; the Bb version New Real Book, The New Real Book in C (Bk2), and the Warner Just Jazz Real Book. A whole bunch of tunes waiting for me to give a cool jazz blues sounding swing to I think. So all recommendations appreciated.

I saw this list at another site (the 100 first tunes you should learn):
* All The Things you Are
* Autumn Leaves
* Alone Together
* Bye Bye Blackbird
* Beautiful Love
* Body and Soul
* Black Orpheus
* Broadway
* But Not For Me
* Come Rain Or Come Shine
* Darn That Dream
* Days Of Wine and Roses
* Desifanado
* Dolphin Dance
* Donna Lee (Back Home In Indiana)
* Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me
* Doxy
* Easy To Love
* Embraceable You
* Emily
* Everything Happens To Me
* Falling In Love With Love
* Fly Me to the Moon
* Getting Sentimental Over You
* Green Dolphin Street
* Giant Steps
* Girl From Ipanema
* How Deep Is The Ocean
* Have You Met Miss Jones
* Here's That Rainy Day
* Honeysuckle Rose
* How High The Moon (Ornithology)
* I Got Rhythm (Oleo, Anthropology)
* I'm Old Fashioned
* In a Sentimental Mood
* It Had To Be You
* I Hear a Rhapsody
* I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart
* I Love You
* In a Mellow Tone
* Impressions (So What)
* I'll Remember April
* Invitation
* In A Sentimental Mood
* In Your Own Sweet Way
* I Remember You
* I've Never Been In Love Before
* I Remember Clifford
* It Might As Well Be Spring
* Just Friends
* Just You Just Me
* Just In time
* Like Someone In Love
* Love For Sale
* Lover Man
* Love Walked In
* Lover Come Back To Me
* Lullaby Of Birdland
* Maiden Voyage
* Moments Notice
* My Favorite Things
* My Foolish Heart
* My Funny Valentine
* My One and Only Love
* My Romance
* Nica's Dream
* Out of Nowhere
* Our Love Is Here To Stay
* Pennies From Heaven
* Prelude To A Kiss
* Perdido
* Polka Dots and Moonbeams
* Recordame
* Satin Doll
* Scrapple From the Apple
* Secret Love
* Skylark
* Someone To Watch Over Me
* Someday My Prince Will Come
* Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
* Speak Low
* Stella By Starlight
* Summertime
* Take the "A" Train
* Tangerine
* Tenderly
* There Is No Greater Love
* There Will Never Be Another You
* These Foolish Things
* The Song is You
* The Way You Look Tonight
* Triste
* The Touch Of Your Lips
* They Cant Take That Away From Me
* Watch What Happens
* Wave
* When I Fall In love
* What's New
* What Is This Thing Called Love (Hot House)
* Witchcraft
* Yesterdays
* You And The Night And The Music
* You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

[pierre richard]

their you have it....

I learned most of these before I saw the list...

Bert Ligons site at U of South Carolina has a list with 300+ as I recall...all should visit his site..if just for a look...but it will be a long look...

time on the instrument....pierre

[rodite1027]

I'm looking at the lead sheet for Fly Me to the Moon now and I first suggest before you start to "learn" to comp it you should be able to plane all the chords. Ask somebody what plane means.

[gersdal]

Originally Posted by rodite1027

I'm looking at the lead sheet for Fly Me to the Moon now and I first suggest before you start to "learn" to comp it you should be able to plane all the chords. Ask somebody what plane means.

What's "plane all the chords"?