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Required Scholarship and Placement Audition Repertoire The Jazz Studies Program at San Diego State University Required Scholarship and Placement Audition Repertoire Freshman Audition Repertoire List (Refer to Scholarship and Placement Audition Polices for specific requirements) Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Five Hundred Miles High Chick Corea I Mean You Thelonious Monk Lady Bird Tadd Dameron Lamp is Low, The Mitchell Paris Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock Mr. P. C. John Coltrane Pent Up House Sonny Rollins Sandu Clifford Brown Silver's Serenade Horace Silver Take the "A" Train Billy Strayhorn There is No Greater Love Isham Jones There Will Never be Another You Warren /Gordon Tune Up Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Junior Level (Upper Division/Transfer) Audition Undergraduate Repertoire List (Refer to Scholarship and Placement Audition Polices for specific requirements) Blues for Alice Charley Parker Ceora Lee Morgan Cherokee Ray Noble Gentle Rain, The Dubey/Bonfa Gregory is Here Horace Silver I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Washington/Bassman In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington In Your Own Sweet Way Dave Brubeck Mahjong Wayne Shorter Stella by Starlight Victor Young Strollin' Horace Silver Sweet and Lovely Arnheim/Tobias/Lemare What is this Thing Called Love Cole Porter When Lights are Low Williams/Carter Whisper Not Benny Golson Graduate Audition Repertoire List (Refer to Scholarship and Placement Audition Polices for specific requirements) Ana Maria Wayne Shorter Dolphin Dance Herbie Hancock E. S. P. Wayne Shorter Giant Steps John Coltrane Isfahan Billy Strayhorn Lennie's Pennies Lennie Tristano Moment's Notice John Coltrane Nefertiti Wayne Shorter Rain Waltz Fred Hersch Reincarnation of a Love Bird Charles Mingus Remember Rockefeller at Attica Charles Mingus Tones for Joan's Bones Chick Corea 26-2 John Coltrane Unless it's You (a.k.a. Orbit) Bill Evans .
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