Jazz Standards for Sax Lessons
| Song Title | Associated Artist or Composer |
| After You’ve Gone | Sophie Tucker |
| Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Fats Waller |
| Ain’t She Sweet | |
| Airegin | Sonny Rollins |
| Alexander’s Ragtime Band | Irving Berlin |
| All Blues | Miles Davis |
| All By Myself | Irving Berlin |
| All of Me | Billie Holiday |
| All or Nothing at All | Frank Sinatra |
| All the Things You Are | Jerome Kern |
| Almost Like Being in Love | Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner |
| Alright, Okay, You Win | Count Basie |
| Angel Eyes | Matt Dennis |
| Angry | Tiny Hill |
| Anthropology | Charlie Parker |
| Anything Goes | Cole Porter |
| Apple Honey | Woody Herman |
| April in Paris | Count Basie |
| As Time Goes By | Rudy Vallée |
| At a Georgia Camp Meeting | |
| At Last | Glenn Miller, Etta James |
| At the Jazz Band Ball | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
| Au Privave | Charlie Parker |
| Auld Lang Syne | Guy Lombardo |
| Autumn in New York | Vernon Duke |
| Autumn Leaves | Joseph Kosma |
| Avalon | Al Jolson |
| Baby Face | Al Jolson |
| Baby Won’t You Please Come Home | Bessie Smith |
| Bags’ Groove | Miles Davis |
| Basin Street Blues | Louis Armstrong |
| Beautiful Love | Wayne King, Bill Evans |
| Bebop | Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker |
| Bernie’s Tune | Gerry Mulligan |
| Bessie’s Blues | John Coltrane |
| Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| Beyond the Sea | Bobby Darin |
| Big Butter and Egg Man | Louis Armstrong |
| Bill Bailey | Louis Armstrong |
| Billie’s Bounce | Charlie Parker |
| Birks’ Works | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Black and Blue | Fats Waller |
| Black Bottom Stomp | Jelly Roll Morton |
| Black Orpheus (see “Day in the Life of a Fool, A”) | Vince Guaraldi |
| Bloomdido | Charlie Parker |
| Blue ‘n Boogie | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Blue Bossa | Joe Henderson |
| Blue Monk | Thelonious Monk |
| Blue Rondo a la Turk | Dave Brubeck |
| Blue Seven | Sonny Rollins |
| Blue Skies | Irving Berlin |
| Blue Train | John Coltrane |
| Blue Turning Grey Over You | Fats Waller |
| Blues by Five | Miles Davis |
| Blues in the Closet | Oscar Pettiford |
| Blues in the Night | Harold Arlen |
| Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me | |
| Blues Walk | Clifford Brown |
| Bluesette | Toots Thielemans |
| Body and Soul | Coleman Hawkins |
| Boplicity | Miles Davis |
| Bourbon Street Parade | Louis Armstrong |
| Breeze | |
| Brown Gold | Art Pepper |
| Brownie Speaks | Clifford Brown |
| But Beautiful | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| But Not for Me | George Gershwin |
| Button Up Your Overcoat | Helen Kane |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | |
| Bye Bye Blues | Les Paul and Mary Ford |
| C Jam Blues | Duke Ellington |
| Cakewalkin’ Babies from Home | |
| Call Me | Nancy Wilson |
| Call Me Irresponsible | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| Can’t We Be Friends | |
| Canal Street Blues | |
| Canteloupe Island | Herbie Hancock |
| Caravan | Duke Ellington |
| Cast Your Fate to the Wind | Vince Guaraldi |
| Ceora | Lee Morgan |
| Chameleon | Herbie Hancock |
| Charleston | James P. Johnson |
| Chasin’ the Train | |
| Chasin’ the Bird | Charlie Parker |
| Chatanooga Choo-Choo | Glenn Miller |
| Cheek to Cheek | Irving Berlin |
| Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Cherokee | Clifford Brown |
| Chicken, The | Jaco Pastorious |
| Child Is Born, A | Thad Jones |
| Children of the Night | Wayne Shorter |
| Chinatown, My Chinatown | Fletcher Henderson |
| Chitlins con Carne | Kenny Burrell |
| Christmas Song, The | Mel Torme |
| Christopher Columbus | Fats Waller |
| Cloudburst | Sam (The Man) Taylor |
| Cold Duck Time | Eddie Harris |
| Come Fly with Me | Frank Sinatra |
| Come Rain or Come Shine | Harold Arlen |
| Con Alma | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Confirmation | Charlie Parker |
| Cookin’ at the Continental | |
| Cool Blues | Charlie Parker |
| Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Cotton Tail | Duke Ellington |
| Crazeology | Charlie Parker |
| Crazy Rhythm | Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn |
| Cry Me a River | Julie London |
| Dancing on the Ceiling | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| Darktown Strutter’s Ball | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
| Darn That Dream | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| Day in the Life of a Fool, A | Vince Guaraldi |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Henry Mancini |
| Deed I Do | Benny Goodman |
| Deep Purple | Paul Whiteman, Larry Clinton |
| Desafinado | Stan Getz |
| Dexterity | Charlie Parker |
| Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear from Me | Duke Ellington |
| Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans | Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday |
| Dolphin Dance | Herbie Hancock |
| Don’t Get Around Much Anymore | Duke Ellington |
| Donna Lee | Charlie Parker |
| Down by the Riverside | |
| Doxy | Sonny Rollins |
| Dreamsville | Henry Mancini |
| E. S. P. | Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis |
| Early Autumn | Woody Herman |
| East of the Sun | Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker |
| Easy Living | Billie Holiday |
| Eb-Pob | Fats Navarro |
| Emily | Bill Evans |
| Equinox | John Coltrane |
| Estamos Ai | |
| Eternal Triangle | Sonny Stitt |
| Everybody Loves My Baby | Louis Armstrong |
| Faith | Joshua Redman |
| Feel Like Makin’ Love | Roberta Flack |
| Feels So Good | Chuck Mangione |
| Fine Romance, A | Jerome Kern |
| Flamingo | Earl Bostic |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Frank Sinatra |
| Flyin’ Home | Illinois Jacquet |
| Foggy Day, A | George Gershwin |
| Footprints | Wayne Shorter |
| Four | Miles Davis |
| Four Brothers | Woody Herman |
| Freddie Freeloader | Miles Davis |
| Freedom Jazz Dance | Eddie Harris |
| From This Moment On | Cole Porter |
| Fungii Mama | Blue Mitchell |
| Georgia (On My Mind) | Ray Charles |
| (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 | Nat Cole |
| Giant Steps | John Coltrane |
| Girl from Ipanema, The | Stan Getz |
| God Bless the Child | Billie Holiday |
| Gone with the Wind | |
| Good-Bye | |
| Good Morning Heartache | Billie Holiday |
| Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Charles Mingus |
| Gravy Waltz | Steve Allen |
| Groove Merchant | Thad Jones |
| Groovin’ High | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Harlem Nocturne | Bud Shank |
| Has Anybody Seen My Girl? (Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue) | |
| Have You Met Miss Jones? | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Judy Garland |
| Hello, Dolly | Louis Armstrong |
| Here’s That Rainy Day | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| Hindustan | |
| Honeysuckle Rose | Fats Waller |
| How High the Moon | Benny Goodman |
| How Insensitive (Insensatez) | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| I Can’t Get Started | Bunny Berigan |
| I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby | Jimmy McHugh |
| I Could Write a Book | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You) | Bing Crosby |
| I Get a Kick Out of You | Cole Porter |
| I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) | Duke Ellington |
| I Got Rhythm | George Gershwin |
| I Hear a Rhapsody | Charlie Barnet, Jimmy Dorsey |
| I Hear Music | |
| I Left My Heart in San Francisco | Tony Bennett |
| I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | Duke Ellington |
| I Love Paris | Cole Porter |
| I Love You | Cole Porter |
| I Remember Clifford | Benny Golson |
| I Remember You | Jimmy Dorsey |
| I Should Care | Frank Sinatra |
| I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | |
| I’ll Be Seeing You | Bing Crosby |
| I’ll Remember April | Gene de Paul |
| I’ll Take Romance | |
| I’m an Errand Boy for Rhythm | Nat Cole |
| I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter | Fats Waller |
| I’m in the Mood for Love | Jimmy McHugh |
| I’m Old Fashioned | Jerome Kern |
| If I Should Lose You | Charlie Parker |
| If You See My Mother | Sidney Bechet |
| Impressions | John Coltrane |
| In a Mellow Tone | Duke Ellington |
| In a Sentimental Mood | Duke Ellington |
| In the Mood | Glenn Miller |
| In the Wee Small Hours | Frank Sinatra |
| Indiana (Back Home Again) | |
| Interplay | |
| Invitation | John Coltrane |
| It Could Happen to You | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) | Duke Ellington |
| It Had to Be You | Isham Jones |
| It Might As Well Be Spring | Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
| It’s All Right with Me | Cole Porter |
| It’s Easy to Remember (and So Hard to Forget) | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| It’s Only a Paper Moon | Harold Arlen |
| It’s the Talk of the Town | Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins |
| It’s Tight Like That | |
| I’ve Found a New Baby | |
| I’ve Got the World on a String | Harold Arlen |
| I’ve Got You Under My Skin | Frank Sinatra |
| Ja-Da | |
| Jazz Me Blues | |
| Jive at Five | Count Basie |
| Jive Samba | |
| Jody Grind, The | Horace Silver |
| Joe Avery Blues | |
| Joy Spring | Clifford Brown |
| Just a Gigolo | Louis Prima |
| Just Friends | Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan |
| Just in Time | Frank Sinatra |
| Just One of Those Things | Cole Porter |
| Just Squeeze Me | Duke Ellingotn |
| K C Blues | Charlie Parker |
| Kansas City | |
| Killer Joe | Benny Golson |
| L-O-V-E | Nat Cole |
| Lady Bird | Tadd Dameron |
| Lady Is a Tramp, The | Frank Sinatra |
| Lemon Drop | Woody Herman |
| Lester Leaps In | Lester Young |
| Let’s Fall in Love | Harold Arlen |
| Like Someone in Love | Jimmy Van Heusen |
| Limehouse Blues | Cannonball Adderley |
| Little Brown Jug | Glenn Miller |
| Long Ago (and Far Away) | Jerome Kern |
| Lonnie’s Lament | John Coltrane |
| Love for Sale | Cole Porter |
| Love Is Here to Stay | George Gershwin |
| Love Me or Leave Me | Doris Day |
| Lover, Come Back to Me | Lester Young, Roy Eldridge |
| Lover Man | Billie Holiday |
| Lullaby of Birdland | George Shearing |
| Lush Life | Billy Strayhorn |
| Mack the Knife | Bobby Darin, Louis Armstong |
| Mad About the Boy | Noël Coward |
| Maiden Voyage | Herbie Hancock |
| Margie | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
| Mas Que Nada | Sérgio Mendes |
| Manha de Carnival (A Day in the Life of a Fool) | Vince Guaraldi |
| Meditation | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | Cannonball Adderley |
| Minority | Gigi Gryce |
| Mr. Magic | Grover Washington, Jr. |
| Mr. P C | John Coltrane |
| Misty | Erroll Garner |
| Moanin’ | Bobby Timmons |
| Moment’s Notice | John Coltrane |
| Mood Indigo | Duke Ellington |
| Moon River | Henry Mancini |
| Moonglow | Glenn Miller |
| Moonlight in Vermont | Margaret Whiting |
| Moonlight Serenade | Glenn Miller |
| Moose the Mooche | Charlie Parker |
| Morning Dance | Spyro Gyra |
| Mountain Greenery | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| My Baby Just Cares for Me | Nina Simone |
| My Favorite Things | John Coltrane |
| My Foolish Heart | Billy Eckstine |
| My Funny Valentine | Chet Baker |
| My Little Suede Shoes | Charlie Parker |
| My Melancholy Baby | |
| My One and Only Love | Frank Sinatra |
| My Romance | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| Nancy (With the Laughing Face) | Frank Sinatra |
| Nature Boy | Nat Cole |
| Nearness of You, The | Glenn Miller |
| Nica’s Dream | Horace Silver |
| Nice ‘n Easy | Frank Sinatra |
| Night and Day | Cole Porter |
| Night in Tunisia, A | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Night Train | Jimmy Forrest |
| Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A | Glenn Miller |
| No Moe | |
| Nostalgia in Times Square | Charles Mingus |
| Now’s the Time | Charlie Parker |
| O Go Moe | |
| Oh, Lady Be Good | George Gershwin |
| Oleo | Sonny Rollins |
| On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) | Barbra Streisand |
| On Green Dolphin Street | Miles Davis |
| On the Scene | |
| On the Sunny Side of the Street | Jimmy McHugh |
| One Note Samba | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| One O’Clock Jump | Count Basie |
| Ornithology | Charlie Parker |
| Oscar for Treadwell, An | Charlie Parker |
| Our Delight | Tadd Dameron |
| Out of Nowhere | Bing Crosby |
| Over the Rainbow | Judy Garland |
| Ow | |
| Passion Flower | Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington |
| Passport | |
| Pennies from Heaven | Bing Crosby |
| Pennsylvania 6-5000 | Glenn Miller |
| Penthouse Serenade | Nat Cole |
| Pent-Up House | Sonny Rollins |
| Perdido | Duke Ellington |
| Peri’s Scope | |
| Petite Fleur | Sidney Bechet |
| Preacher, The | Horace Silver |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Duke Ellington |
| Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Recado Bossa Nova (The Gift!) | Hank Mobley |
| Recorda Me | Joe Henderson |
| Red Cross | Charlie Parker |
| Rhythm-a-Ning | Thelonious Monk |
| Robbin’s Nest | Illinois Jacquet |
| Rockin’ Chair | Hoagy Carmichael |
| Round Midnight | Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams |
| Royal Garden Blues | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
| Ruby, My Dear | Thelonious Monk |
| Runnin’ Wild | Original Memphis Five |
| S Wonderful | George Gershwin |
| Sail Away | Tom Harrell |
| St. James Infirmary | |
| St. Louis Blues | W. C. Handy |
| St. Thomas | Sonny Rollins |
| Salt Peanuts | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Sandu | Clifford Brown |
| Satin Doll | Duke Ellington |
| Scotch and Soda | |
| Scrapple from the Apple | Charlie Parker |
| Segment | Charlie Parker |
| Sentimental Journey | Les Brown, Doris Day |
| September in the Rain | George Shearing |
| September Song | Frank Sinatra |
| Seven Steps to Heaven | Miles Davis |
| Shadow of Your Smile, The | Bill Evans, Sarah Vaughan |
| Shaw’nuff | Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker |
| Sheik of Araby | |
| Shiny Stockings | Ella Fitzgerald |
| Shout ‘Em Aunt Tillie | |
| Sidewinder | Lee Morgan |
| Sing, Sing, Sing | Benny Goodman, Louis Prima |
| Sister Sadie | Horace Silver |
| Skylark | Hoagy Carmichael |
| So What | Miles Davis |
| Solar | Miles Davis |
| Some Skunk Funk | Brecker Brothers |
| Someday My Prince Will Come | Miles Davis |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | George Gershwin |
| Song for My Father | Horace Silver |
| Song Is You, The | Jerome Kern |
| Sonny Side | |
| Sonnymoon for Two | Sonny Rollins |
| Sophisticated Lady | Duke Ellington |
| South | Benny Moten |
| Spain | Chick Corea |
| Speak Low | Kurt Weill |
| Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most | |
| Star Dust | Hoagy Carmichael |
| Star Eyes | Charlie Parker |
| Stella by Starlight | Charlie Parker |
| Stolen Moments | Oliver Nelson |
| Stompin’ at the Savoy | Benny Goodman |
| Straight, No Chaser | Thelonious Monk |
| Straighten Up and Fly Right | Nat Cole |
| Struttin’ with Some Barbeque | |
| Sugar (trad jazz) | |
| Sugar (Turrentine) | Stanley Turrentine |
| Summer Samba | Walter Wanderley |
| Summertime | George Gershwin |
| Sunrise Serenade | Frankie Carle |
| Swedish Schnapps | Charlie Parker |
| Sweet Georgia Brown | Brother Bones |
| Sweet Lorraine | Nat Cole |
| Swingin’ Shepherd Blues | |
| Take Five | Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond |
| Take the ‘A’ Train | Duke Ellington |
| Taking a Chance on Love | Benny Goodman |
| Tangerine | Jimmy Dorsey |
| Teach Me Tonight | |
| Tenderly | Sarah Vaughan |
| Tenor Madness | Sonny Rollins |
| That’s a Plenty | |
| That’s My Weakness Now | Helen Kane |
| Theme | |
| There Is No Greater Love | Miles Davis |
| There Will Never Be Another You | Chet Baker |
| They Can’t Take That Away from Me | George Gershwin |
| Things Ain’t What They Used to Be | Mercer Ellington |
| This Can’t Be Love | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
| This I Dig of You | Hank Mobley |
| This Masquerade | George Benson |
| Three O’Clock in the Morning | Paul Whiteman |
| Tiger Rag | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
| Tin Roof Blues | New Orleans Rhythm Kings |
| Trane’s Blues | John Coltrane |
| Triste | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Tuxedo Junction | Glenn Miller |
| Twisted | Wardell Gray |
| Unforgettable | Nat Cole |
| Unit 7 | |
| (Up a ) Lazy River | Hoagy Carmichael |
| Up Jumped Spring | Freddie Hubbard |
| Upper Manhattan Medical Group | Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington |
| Wail | |
| Walkin’ | |
| Walkin’ My Baby Back Home | Nat Cole |
| Watch What Happens (Recit de Cassard) | Michel Legrand |
| Watermelon Man | Herbie Hancock |
| Wave | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Way You Look Tonight, The | Jerome Kern |
| We See | Thelonious Monk |
| Wee | |
| Well You Needn’t | Thelonious Monk |
| What a Difference a Day Makes | Dinah Washington |
| What a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong |
| What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life | Michel Legrand |
| What’s New | Bing Crosby |
| When I Fall in Love | Nat Cole |
| When It’s Sleepy Time Down South | Louis Armstrong |
| When Lights Are Low | Benny Carter |
| When Sunny Gets Blue | Johnny Mathis |
| When the Saints Go Marching In | |
| When You’re Smiling | Louis Armstrong |
| Whisper Not | Benny Golson |
| Whispering | Paul Whiteman |
| Willow Weep for Me | Paul Whiteman |
| Windows | Chick Corea |
| Witchcraft | Frank Sinatra |
| Work Song | Cannonball Adderley |
| Yardbird Suite | Charlie Parker |
| Yesterdays | Jerome Kern |
| You Do Something to Me | Cole Porter |
| You Don’t Know What Love Is | Miles Davis |
| You Make Me Feel So Young | Frank Sinatra |
| You Stepped Out of a Dream | |
| You’d Be So Easy to Love | Cole Porter |
| You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To | Dinah Shore |
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