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 medium
ballad 4/4 ABAC
Hours of the
Curtis Fuller Morning
Blue 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 chorus)
There 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! Trio
Ken 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 medium
swing - 4/4 AABA
Oscar Peterson Green Dolphin Steet The Essential Oscar Oscar Peterson standard medium
swing - 4/4 ABAC
Peterson: The medium
Paul Chambers Blue Train Swinger
Blue Train John Coltrane jazz standard swing - 4/4 blues
Paul Desmond Take Five Time Out Dave Brubeck modal medium
swing - 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