You are at JazzStandards.com, a website dedicated to the preservation of information for the musical compositions known as Jazz Standards.

The information at this site has been assembled from hundreds of reference books and historical documents with additional commentary by jazz performers, historians, and musicologists.

In one location you can find:

• A list of the 1000 most-frequently recorded jazz standard compositions (Click on Songs)
  
• Detailed information on the top 300 jazz standards including origins, historical notes, musical analyses, CD suggestions, and much more (Click on Songs)
  
• Concise Biographies for the writers and introducing performers
  
• A decade-by-decade look at Jazz History through the trends, events, and people who shaped the jazz standards canon
  
• A seven-part series on Jazz Theory.
• References on hundreds of songs to help you in your research (look in Songs, Biographies and the Jazz Standards Bookstore)
  

On every song page is a “Comments” link. Feel free to contribute what you like about that song or any background information you think would be of interest to other visitors.

We have Reading and Research information on over 600 of our song pages. Each of these song pages tells you where to go for more information and what type of information you’ll find there: historical, anecdotal, biographical, music analysis, lyric analysis, song lyrics, sheet music, and more.

Additionally you can browse through the JazzStandards.com Bookstore, which has a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading. Many of our books may be found at Amazon for two or three dollars! The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book’s relevance to the subject.

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Dozens of pages at JazzStandards.com now link to PlayJazzNow.com where you’ll find downloadable tracks and free chord changes for horn players, singers, pianists, drummers, and more.

The following JazzStandards.com tunes link to PlayJazzNow.com’s chord changes and play-along tracks...