Roots and Rhythms
Wednesday December 5th, 2012 with Bruce Walton
The ten most-recorded songs in jazz history
Presented in descending (or ascending, if you want) order, #10 to #1. #10 recorded 1387 times; #1, 2132 times. Those numbers demonstrate these tunes' popularity over time, as does the fact that I have at least 85 versions of these ten songs, without having specifically collected them. Based on Tom Lord's The Jazz Discography - www.lordisco.com
| Autumn Leaves Mickey Baker - The Wildest Guitar (1959) |
| Autumn Leaves Zoot Sims & Al Cohn - Either Way ( 1961) |
| My Funny Valentine Denny Christianson Big Band feat. Pepper Adams - Suite Mingus (1986) 
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| All The Things You Are (Feb. 1945) Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Odyssey 1945-1952 |
| Sweet Georgia Brown Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Boogie Woogie String-Along For Real (1978) |
| Caravan Autorickshaw - Four Higher (2004)
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| Round Midnight Sun Ra & Hs Astro-Infinity Arkestra - Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1959) |
| Take The A Train Duke Ellington - The Complete Standard Transcriptions, 1941 |
| Take The A Train Betty Roche - Take The A Train (1956) |
| Summertime (1962) Ray Barretto - Latin Jazz (Putumayo) |
| St. Louis Blues (Chicago April 1933) Louis Armstrong - The Great Tomato Blues Package |
| Body & Soul (1939) Coleman Hawkins - Best |
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8:26 PM, December 5th, 2012