Standard of jazz

In Jazz, a standard is a piece which acquired a certain notoriety and is thus known of all the musicians of jazz, which is the subject of many Reprise again S and is played at the time of the Jam session.

The standard and its recovery

He answers in theory certain conditions: measurement to 4 time, precise number of measurements (generally 32), known agreements in known succession (from where the “standard” term). But the immense creativity of the jazzmen generated melodies which do not answer these rules and however became of the standards.

There is no obligation of fidelity in the resumption of a standard; the change of style on the contrary is developed:

  • change of the tempo;
  • transposition;
  • réagencement of the structure;
  • adaptation of the words (for example, for Why don' T you C right , in which a woman, represented by the singer, addresses to a man, the men singers reverse the relation and address to a woman, and must modify the words consequently);
  • etc

Each reinterpretation must be equivalent to a rewriting of the piece, while leaving the recognizable piece. It thus acts, for the interpreter, at the same time of a homage to the original Compositeur, and of a Exercice of style where it is dissociated some, showing of originality and initiative.

Two consequences derive from it:

  1. the piece of origin does not enjoy truly an authority on its recoveries;
  2. the resumption of a standard is not less “noble” that an original composition.

The piece of origin does not enjoy truly an authority on its recoveries: each one of them insists on various aspects of the piece. Thus, the multiplication of the resumptions of a standard tends to make vary its aspects, never to repeat them; what makes a standard is not so much the intrinsic quality of a piece, which its fertility and its Plasticité.

The resumption of a standard is not less “noble” that an original composition: it is quite contrary a question “of recomposing” a piece, consequently to show an authentic originality.

Origin of the standards

Many standards of jazz appear in the Real Book , a great classic of the musicians of jazz (thus named by allusion to the Bible, the Good Book or in reaction at the end general used to describe compilations " pirates" partitions: " fake book ").

Many standards come from successes from Broadway, played in a more or less free way. When they are in the beginning songs, the musicians of jazz often play them (but not systematically) in an instrumental way.

Standards in the Bebop

Several jazzmen of the movement Bebop wrote topics “bop” on the harmony of older topics. For example, Ornithology is founded on How High The Moon , or Donna Lee on Indiana .

Large standards of jazz

Among the large standards of jazz appear:

  • After You' ve Gone
  • Ain' T Misbehavin'
  • All Blues
  • All Off Me
  • All The Things You Are
  • April In Paris
  • Fall Leaves (according to Dead Sheets )
  • Avalon
  • Basin Street Blues
  • Billie' S Bounce
  • Blue In Green
  • Blue Moon
  • Body And Drunk
  • But Not For Me
  • Caravan
  • has Child Is Born
  • Days Of Wine And Roses
  • Django
  • Dinah
  • Donna Lee
  • Easy To Love
  • Embraceable You
  • Everybody Loves My Baby
  • Everything Happens To Me
  • Flying Home
  • Frankie And Johnny
  • Georgia One My Mind
  • The Girl From Ipanema
  • Honeysuckle Pink
  • How Deep Is The Ocean
  • I Can' T Get Started
  • I Can' T Give You Anything But Coils
  • I Got Rhythm
  • I' L Remember April
  • I' m Beginning To See The Light
  • I' m Confessin'
  • Indiana
  • In has Sentimental Mood
  • I Surrender Dear
  • It Don' T Mean has Thing (Yew It Ain' T Got That Swing)
  • I' ve Found has New Baby
  • Just Friends
  • Just One Of Those Things
  • Just You, Just Me
  • The Lady Has Tramp
  • Laura
  • Like Someone In Coils
  • Lonely Woman
  • Love For Sale
  • Lover Like Back To Me
  • Mack The Knife
  • The Man I Coils
  • Moanin'
  • My Funny Valentine
  • My Way (english language version of As usual)
  • Nature Servant boy
  • Night And Day
  • Now' S The Time
  • One The Sunny Side Of The Street
  • Petite Fleur
  • Round Midnight
  • Scrapple From The Apple
  • The Shadow Of Your Smile
  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Softy As In has Morning Sunrise
  • So what
  • Squeeze Me
  • Stardust
  • Star Eyes
  • St Louis Blues
  • Stella by Starlight
  • Stolen Moments
  • Stompin' At The Savoy
  • Summertime
  • Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Sweet Sue
  • Take Five
  • Take the has Train
  • Tea For Two
  • Tenderly
  • These Foolish Things
  • Trouble In Mind
  • The Way You Look Tonight
  • What Is This Thing Called Love
  • Willow Weep For Me
  • Yesterdays
  • You Don' T Know What Love Is
  • You Go To My Head

Standards of the Latin jazz

The most famous standards of the Latin jazz are: Perdido , Caravan , Manteca of Dizzy Gillespie, Idiot alma , Saint-Thomas , Little Sweden Shoes , Tico Tico , Afro-Blue , etc

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