50 EASY JAZZ SOLOS BY JAZZ MASTERS
COMPILED BY JEFF LIBMAN
Band Leader Time Soloist Song Recording Of Recording Type Of Tune Musical Style Sig Form
Barney Kessel Embraceable You To Swing or Not to Barney Kessel standard ballad 4/4 ABAC Swing Blue Mitchell Oh When the Saints Out of the Blue Blue Mitchell folk song swing - 4/4 16 bar medium up Cannonball Adderley Au Privave Cannonball Adderley Cannonball blues swing - 4/4 blues and the Poll Winners Adderley medium up Cannonball Adderley Never Will I Marry Nancy Wilson & Nancy Wilson & standard swing - 4/4 ABACBA Cannonball Adderley Cannonball medium up Adderley Charlie Parker Cool Blues Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues Savoy Recordings medium Chet Baker Time After Time The Best Of Chet Chet Baker standard swing - 4/4 ABAC Baker Sings medium Chet Baker I Fall in Love Too The Best Of Chet Chet Baker standard ballad 4/4 ABCD Easily Baker Sings Chet Baker Therer Will Never Be The Best Of Chet Chet Baker standard swing - 4/4 ABAC Another You Baker Sings medium up Chet Baker You're Driving me It Could Happen To Chet Baker standard swing - 4/4 AABA Crazy You medium Chet Baker Do it the Hard Way It Could Happen To Chet Baker standard swing - 4/4 ABAC You medium up Clifford Brown Stompin' at the Brown and Roach, Clifford Brown standard swing - 4/4 AABC Savoy Inc. and Max Roach medium up
Curtis Fuller Blue Room The Sermon Jimmy Smith standard swing - 4/4 AABA Curtis Fuller In the Wee Small Caravan Art Blakey standard mediumballad 4/4 ABAC Hours of the Curtis Fuller MorningBlue Train Blue Train John Coltrane jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues medium Dexter Gordon Second Balcony Go Dexter Gordon rhythm swing - 4/4 AABA Jump changes medium up
Dexter Gordon Soy Califa A Swingin' Affair Dexter Gordon jazz standard latin/swing - 4/4 AABA medium up Freddie Hubbard Interplay Interplay Bill Evans jazz standard swing - 4/4 minor medium blues Hank Mobley Someday My Prince Someday My Prince Miles Davis jazz waltz swing - 3/4 ABAC Will Come Will Come medium Hank Mobley The More I See You Roll Call Hank Mobley standard swing - 4/4 ABAC medium up Hank Mobley Remember Soul Station Hank Mobley standard swing - 4/4 AABA medium up
Harold Land Stompin' at the Brown and Roach, Clifford Brown standard swing - 4/4 AABC Savoy Inc. and Max Roach medium Horace Silver Doodlin' Horace Silver and Horace Silver blues swing - 4/4 blues the Jazz Messengers medium Horace Silver Four Blue Haze Miles Davis jazz standard swing - 4/4 ABAC medium up Horace Silver Solar Walkin' Miles Davis jazz standard swing - 4/4 12 bar, medium up not blues Kenny Dorham Blue Bossa Page One Joe Henderson jazz standard bossa nova - 4/4 short medium form Lee Morgan Ceora Cornbread Lee Morgan jazz standard bossa nova 4/4 ABAC Lee Morgan You Don't Know Art Blakey And The Art Blakey standard ballad 4/4 AABA What Love Is (half Jazz Messengers Lester Young Therechorus) Will Never Be Lester Young with Lester Young ballad swing - ballad 4/4 ABAC Another You the Oscar Peterson Lester Young Oh, Lady, Be Good! TrioKen Burns Jazz Lester Young standard swing - 4/4 AABA medium up
Band Leader Time Soloist Song Recording Of Recording Type Of Tune Musical Style Sig Form
Lester Young You're Driving me Lester Young 1943- Lester Young standard swing - 4/4 AABA Crazy 1947 medium Miles Davis So What Kind of Blue Miles Davis modal swing - 4/4 AABA medium Miles Davis Freddie Freeloader Kind of Blue Miles Davis blues swing - 4/4 blues medium Miles Davis Bags' Groove (takes Bags' Groove Miles Davis blues swing - 4/4 blues 1 and 2) medium Miles Davis Autumn Leaves Somethin' Else Cannonball standard swing - 4/4 AABC Adderley medium Miles Davis Bye Bye Blackbird Round About Miles Davis standard swing - 4/4 AABA Midnight medium Miles Davis Four Blue Haze Miles Davis jazz standard swing - 4/4 ABAC medium up Miles Davis Solar Walkin' Miles Davis jazz standard swing - 4/4 12 bar, medium up not blues Miles Davis Walkin' Walkin' Miles Davis jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues Miles Davis Doxy Bags' Groove Miles Davis jazz standard mediumswing - 4/4 AABA Oscar Peterson Green Dolphin Steet The Essential Oscar Oscar Peterson standard mediumswing - 4/4 ABAC Peterson: The medium Paul Chambers Blue Train SwingerBlue Train John Coltrane jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues Paul Desmond Take Five Time Out Dave Brubeck modal mediumswing - 5/4 vamp medium up Ray Brown Bye Bye Blackbird Live At Scullers Ray Brown standard swing - 4/4 AABA medium Red Garland Surrey with The Steamin' with the Miles Davis standard swing - 4/4 AABA Fringe on Top Miles Davis Quintet medium (chorus 1) Richie Powell Stompin' at the Brown and Roach, Clifford Brown standard swing - 4/4 AABC Savoy Inc. and Max Roach medium up Sonny Rollins St. Thomas Saxophone Collosus Sonny Rollins jazz standard calypso - 4/4 AABC medium up (first solo) Thad Jones Tip Toe Consummation Thad Jones & jazz standard swing - 4/4 AABA Mel Lewis medium up Wes Montgomery No Blues Smokin' at the Half Wes jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues Note Montgomery medium
Wynton Kelly Freddie Freeloader Kind of Blue Miles Davis blues swing - 4/4 blues medium Wynton Kelly Someday My Prince Someday My Prince Miles Davis standard swing - 3/4 ABAC Will Come Will Come medium