Favorite Jazz Songs

The sweet sound of jazz combines a variety of eclectic and artistically inspired components making it one of the most robust and diverse musical genres in the world. There's NOTHING like the feeling associated with a good jazz track as it moves the body and stirs the soul. Question is, which jazz songs do you consider your favorites? From artists like Billy Holiday, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Fran Sinatra and many, many more, this list is dedicated to the jazz songs that move you the most! So, strike up the band and proclaim the songs you love the most then share you list on social to help gather contributions to the overall list!

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    Moanin'
    Ranked by 4 users
    28 +64
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    So What
    Ranked by 5 users
    23 -29
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    Spanish Key
    Ranked by 3 users
    22 -8
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    Magwaza
    Ranked by 1 users
    20 +55
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    The Creator Has a Master Plan
    Ranked by 1 users
    19 +49
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    Trio and Group Dancers
    Ranked by 1 users
    18 -9
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    Ascension
    Ranked by 1 users
    17 +36
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    Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
    Ranked by 4 users
    16 -50
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    Yellow Note (Straight To Prince Jazzbeard's Head & More Power Than A Budo Master)
    Ranked by 1 users
    15 -60
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    Birdland
    Ranked by 2 users
    15 +33
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    Pursuance
    Ranked by 2 users
    15 +18
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    Communications #11, Part 2
    Ranked by 1 users
    15 -72
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    Move Into The Night
    Ranked by 1 users
    14 -53
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    Communications #11, Part 1
    Ranked by 1 users
    14 -95
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    Family
    Ranked by 1 users
    13 -8
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    Shakey Jake
    Ranked by 1 users
    13 +44
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    What Goes Up Must Come Down
    Ranked by 1 users
    12 -40
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    Zoot Suit Riot
    Ranked by 2 users
    12 -17
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    Take Five
    Ranked by 2 users
    12 +18
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    Feels So Good
    Ranked by 2 users
    12 -60

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  • 9 years ago
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    Needs more Brubeck
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  • 9 years ago
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    Stuff that needs to be added asap: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Cool Jazz, Bebop, Hard bob, Post-Bob, Cape jazz, Smooth Jazz, Modal Jazz, Vocal Jazz. Stuff that needs to be removed: Jazz Pop Jazz Rock, Jazz Rap, Jazzstep (Again, this would be like adding Folk Metal to folk. Genres don't work that way).
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … Done! Thx for the insights, man :)
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … So for things like "Jazz Rock/Pop" if that does not belong on the Jazz list does it belong on the Rock/Pop list or on neither of them and why does one take preference over the other? The Wiki article makes it sound like a combination of the two genres. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_pop (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Jazz.)
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … Smooth Jazz is the term if it's actually jazz (which was added by Pape). Jazz-Fusion is the term for jazz mixed with rock. Jazz Pop and Jazz Rock are genres with jazz elements, but adding them to a list like this is a bit too much imo. Yes there are people who use these terms to describe the same thing, but I think it's better to separate them (just my opinion). from wikipedia: "The term, "jazz-rock" is often used as a synonym for the term "jazz fusion". However, some make a distinction between the two terms". Either favslist combines them and removes the other one, or we don't change anyting and separate them for lists like this. I don't really care, I just don't want pop/rock/rap songs with some saxophones playing in the background to be added to a jazz list.
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … Insightful, I'm probably going to stay away from this list until later as I'm going to struggle to figure out if something is "actually Jazz". I'm having the same issue with the Ambient list, just not sure on where the point of "This song is no longer X" is.
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … I'm not the owner of this site, nor do I force anyone to do what I want. I just make suggestions. If most people want to add pop/rock/rap songs to the list and Pape agrees with them, then I have to deal with it.
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … I agree with what you are saying in that genre lists should be kept to things of their actual genre I just don't know enough to actually pick things out between all the sub genres / I don't know what makes a song 'actual Jazz'. I was going to add #Something and #The Incredits under Big Band and #Ice Cream Syndrome as Jazz Fusion but I'm not sure if those genres are accurate. (It's just what Wikipedia says.)
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  • 9 years ago
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    Calling someone that knows about Jazz, is #Big Band a kind of Jazz or is it something separate entirely?
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … I wouldn't say they're entirely separate. Really reaching for my freshman History of Jazz course here, but I think Jazz is more like a broad, umbrella genre and Big Band is a sub-genre.
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … Thanks for the insight, that sounds like a cool thing to of studied. I like a few big band songs, is that something for this list @Pape Badiane? (As you currently can't rank them.)
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    • Fincher
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      Editing … Swing should probably go under here, too.
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … I've added "Big band" and "Swing" to the list
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    • Magwaza
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      Editing … Deleted by himself
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