IASJ Top 10 - YouTube

The IASJ Top 10 are your "school figures," as they say in ice skating; your required jazz standards. When you apply for the program, you will select from among these to perform at your audition. See the online application for details.

Below are links to a few good performances of the IASJ Top 10 tunes on YouTube. There are tons more! Enjoy and learn...

1. 12-bar blues (various tunes and keys, minor and major)
1. Centerpiece
1. Coleman Hawkins et al, quintessential phrasing!
2. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross 
3. Instructional, with Lenora Zenzalai Helm
4. Master Class, with Roseanna Vitro
5. Roberta Gambarini 
2. Now's the Time
1. Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, 1945
2. Miles Davis solo, with notation
3. Parker at the Roost, 1948-9
4. Vi Redd, vocal
2. I Got Rhythm changes (various tunes and keys, including original)
1. Oleo - Miles Davis Quintet, featuring Sonny Rollins
2. Errand Boy for Rhythm - Nat Cole
3. Errand Girl for Rhythm - Diana Krall
4. I Got Rhythm - Gershwin plays
5. I Got Rhythm - Hiromi
6. I Got Rhythm - Judy Garland
3. All the Things You Are
1. Ella Fitzgerald - Nelson Riddle arrangement
2. Django Reinhardt
3. Baden Powell
4. Charlie Parker
4. Stella by Starlight
1. Sarah Vaughan
2. Miles Davis
3. Bill Evans
4. Stan Getz
5. There Will Never Be Another You
1. Chet Baker
2. Oscar Peterson
3. Bud Powell
4. Nat Cole
6. Body and Soul
1. Coleman Hawkins
2. Billie Holiday
3. Ella Fitzgerald
4. Anita O'Day
7. Autumn Leaves
1. Nat Cole - in French with lyrics on screen
2. Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis
3. Joe Pass with Sarah Vaughan
4. Bill Evans
8. Have You Met Miss Jones?
1. Anita O'Day [start listening ca. 2:00]
2. Ella Fitzgerald
3. Hank Jones (master class)
4. Art Tatum )
9. Footprints
1. Wayne Shorter
2. Gabriel Alegria (Afro-Peruvian version)
3. Young Israeli students (pop-ish version)
4. Rajdulari Jazz Project (with Dee Dee Bridgewater's lyrics)
10. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
1. Dianne Reeves - with improvised "welcome" intro
2. Nelson Eddy
3. Sonny Rollins
4. John Coltrane

Titles from the earlier list (2000, Paris).

1. All Blues
1. Miles Davis
2. Ernestine Anderson
2. There Is No Greater Love
1.  Billie Holiday 
2.  Sonny Rollins
3. Solar
1.  Miles Davis
4. [All of Me]
1.  Billie Holiday
2. Sarah Vaughan
3. Duke Ellington