TOP 57 GREATEST JAZZ STANDARDS 

Peter Martin is insane. To have that fluidity to randomly switch tunes and styles on a dime and nail it every time. That's next level musicianship

Seriously impressive. Now take them all through 12 keys and you’re good to go! 😅

Tracklist: 0:49 "A Foggy Day" by George Gershwin (lyrics: Ira Gershwin) 0:56 "It Could Happen to You" by Jimmy Van Heusen (lyrics: Johnny Burke) 1:01 "What Is This Thing Called Love" by Cole Porter 1:07 "In a Mellow Tone" by Duke Ellington 1:16 "All Blues" by Miles Davis 1:28 "I Thought About You" by Jimmy Van Heusen (lyrics: Johnny Mercer) 1:36 "Triste" by Antonio Carlos Jobim 1:44 "If I Should Lose You" by Ralph Rainger (lyrics: Leo Robin) 1:54 "All the Things You Are" by Jerome Kern (lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II) 2:02 "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" by Duke Ellington (lyrics later added for vocal versions: Irving Mills) 2:08 "Take the 'A' Train" by Billy Strayhorn 2:16 "Have You Met Miss Jones?" by Richard Rodgers (lyrics: Lorenz Hart) 2:22 "Alone Together" by Arthur Schwartz (lyrics: Howard Dietz) 2:31 "Just Friends" by John Klenner (lyrics: Sam M. Lewis) 2:37 "The Saint Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy 2:46 "Summertime" by George Gershwin (lyrics: DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin) 2:51 "The Girl from Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim (lyrics: Vínicius de Moraes) 2:58 "A Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie 3:04 "Lullaby of Birdland" by George Shearing (lyrics: George David Weiss) 3:09 "Stella by Starlight": Victor Young (lyrics added later for vocal versions: Ned Washington) 3:16 "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane 3:21 "Autumn Leaves" by Joseph Kosma (original French lyrics for 'Les Feuilles Mortes': Jacques Prévert, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer) 3:27 "Minority" by Gigi Gryce 3:33 "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael (lyrics added later for vocal versions: Mitchell Parish) 3:44 "Four" by Miles Davis 3:47 "Billie's Bounce" by Charlie Parker 3:52 "Misty" by Erroll Garner (lyrics later added for vocal versions: Johnny Burke) 3:57 "Stablemates" by Benny Golson 4:04 "Footprints" by Wayne Shorter 4:11 "Blame It on My Youth" by Oscar Levant (lyrics: Edward Heyman) 4:20 "Monk's Dream" by Thelonious Monk 4:30 "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins 4:35 "Flamenco Sketches" by Miles Davis and Bill Evans 4:48 "Body and Soul" by Johnny Green (lyrics: Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, and Frank Eyton) 4:59 "Moonglow" by Will Hudson, Irving Mills (lyrics: Eddie DeLange) 5:06 "So What" by Miles Davis 5:10 "Evidence" by Thelonious Monk 5:14 "Bye Bye Blackbird" by Ray Henderson (lyrics: Mort Dixon) 5:19 "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers (lyrics: Lorenz Hart) 5:31 "Ruby, My Dear" by Thelonious Monk 5:42 "Emily" by Johnny Mandel (lyrics: Johnny Mercer) 5:46 "C Jam Blues" by Duke Ellington 5:51 "There Is No Greater Love" by Isham Jones (lyrics: Marty Symes) 5:56 "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk 6:02 "Embraceable You" by George Gershwin (lyrics: Ira Gershwin) 6:11 "Cantaloupe Island" by Herbie Hancock 6:17 "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker 6:22 "Out of Nowhere" by Johnny Green (lyrics: Edward Heyman) 6:26 "Donna Lee" by Charlie Parker 6:31 "Caravan" by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington 6:36 "Oleo" by Sonny Rollins 6:40 "One Finger Snap" by Herbie Hancock 6:44 "On Green Dolphin Street" by Bronisław Kaper (lyrics: Ned Washington) 6:51 "Dolphin Dance" by Herbie Hancock 6:57 "Cherokee" by Ray Noble 7:03 "Cuba...New Orleans" by Peter Martin 7:12 "Crazeology" by Benny Harris 7:18 "Daahoud" by Clifford Brown

Some tunes that you missed: -Almost Like Being In Love -Black Nile -Just One Of Those Things -The Song Is You -You Stepped Out Of A Dream -Beautiful Love -Come Rain Or Come Shine -I'll Remember April -Speak Low -How Deep Is The Ocean -I'll Be Seeing You -Nobody Else But Me -The Way You Look Tonight -My Shining Hour -Darn That Dream -I Should Care -Solar -Like Someone In Love -There Will Never Be Another You -It's You Or No One -Days Of Wine And Roses -Confirmation -Tenderly -Skylark -You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To -Blue Bossa -Celia

Peter, this was damn impressive ! This is what separates the pros from the amateurs. I aspire to what you just did.

Absolutely incredible 🔥🔥🔥 Peter Martin is a Jazz Piano MONSTER

I wished you had posted the list, so I wrote a program to parse out the transcript and edited it and ran it through Bing ChatGPT. "A Foggy Day": George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. "It Could Happen to You": Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. "What Is This Thing Called Love": Cole Porter. "In a Mellow Tone": Duke Ellington. "All Blues": Miles Davis. "I Thought About You": Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer. "Triste": Antonio Carlos Jobim. "If I Should Lose You": Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. "All the Things You Are": Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. "It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing": Duke Ellington and Irving Mills. "Take the A Train": Billy Strayhorn. "Have You Met Miss Jones": Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. "Alone Together": Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. "Just Friends": John Klenner and Sam M. Lewis. "The St. Louis Blues": W. C. Handy. "Summertime": George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin. "The Girl from Ipanema": Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. "A Night in Tunisia": Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli. "Lullaby of Birdland": George Shearing and George David Weiss. "Stella by Starlight": Victor Young and Ned Washington. "Giant Steps": John Coltrane. "Autumn Leaves": Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, and Johnny Mercer. "Minority": Gigi Gryce. "Stardust": Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. "Four": Miles Davis. "Billy's Bounce": Charlie Parker. "Misty": Erroll Garner. "Stablemates": Benny Golson. "Footprints": Wayne Shorter. "Blame It on My Youth": Oscar Levant and Edward Heyman. "Monk's Dream": Thelonious Monk. "St. Thomas": Sonny Rollins. "Flamenco Sketches": Miles Davis and Bill Evans. "Body and Soul": Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, and Frank Eyton. "Moonglow": Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange, and Irving Mills. "So What": Miles Davis. "Evidence": Thelonious Monk. "Bye Bye Blackbird": Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon. "My Funny Valentine": Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. "Ruby, My Dear": Thelonious Monk. "Emily": Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer. "C-Jam Blues": Duke Ellington. "There Is No Greater Love": Isham Jones and Marty Symes. "'Round Midnight": Thelonious Monk. "Embraceable You": George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. "Cantaloupe Island": Herbie Hancock. "Now's the Time": Charlie Parker. "Out of Nowhere": Johnny Green and Edward Heyman. "Donna Lee": Charlie Parker. "Caravan": Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol. "Oleo": Sonny Rollins. "One Finger Snap": Herbie Hancock. "Dolphin Dance": Herbie Hancock. "On Green Dolphin Street": Bronisław Kaper and Ned Washington. "Cherokee": Ray Noble. "Cuba New Orleans": Paquito D'Rivera. "Crazyology": Woody Herman. "Daahoud": Clifford Brown.

Some standards I would have added: -Night And Day -We'll Be Together Again -Airegin -Joyspring -Autumn in New York -Star Eyes -Polka Dots and Moonbeams -When Sunny Gets Blue -Blues for Alice

I’m blown away, Peter! You are an inspiration! How fortunate are we to have lived in a time with all these beautiful songs!?

Awe inspiring. Peter's ability to change his touch, dynamics, time feel, and groove to fit every tune. Every tune was so seamless, like they were all movements in the same piece. That's a lesson in it of itself!

i would not have had the discipline to only let peter play a few seconds of eaech standard haha. i would have let him played an extended 10 minute versoin, what a feel!!

After watching, I don't know whether to go practice or just sell my piano. Amazing!

Only thing in this video I can do is mix up Dolphin Dance and On Green Dolphin Street. But I'm really good at that

Someday My Prince Will Come

How absolutely crazy and impressive is this??? I’m utterly floored

This is a superpower! I had to memorize about 50 standards in college and have them at the ready. But that was on saxophone. Having to remember all the voicings too is mind boggling to me.

This has to go down in history as one of the great live one-take music films of all time (only competition - Steve Allen's "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" with Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra and all the others, February 1958)

The professional like you can go to any jam session and be comfortable knowing that they’re going to know most of the songs. Great video. I wouldn’t have minded if you played the whole song of each tune.

Speechless. Each tune played to perfection!

OMG Peter Martin, you are is terrific. "Waltz for Debby"

Wow!! Thank you for the inspiration!! I'm still in kindergarten compared to you guys but I keep playin'. The mental part of it is huge and I appreciate seeing someone who can "change gears" so fluidly, being able to actually think the next tune while still playing a different one.

I love this channel. Great humor, great musicians, great teaching

Awesome video. My standards: 1. Spain by Chick Corea 2. Wave by Jobim 3. Waltz for Debbie by Bill Evans 4. How High The Moon 5. There Will Never Be Another You 6. Black Orpheus

Wow. You even transpose lots of the tunes on the fly! You are such a master, Peter. Congratulations.

There are 15 tunes that I've never played here; I know the rest. I made a list of jazz standards that I know and play a couple of months ago; came up with 85. Not too shabby for a guy who has to play pop/rock covers to make a living. I guess you could say jazz is my hobby and pop/rock is my livelihood.

Black Narcissus, Afro Centric, Little B’s Poem, Totem Pole, Ceora, This is for Albert. So many!

You guys are the best. I joined last month and I wish I had a Time Machine to go back and join so that I could learn all the amazing lessons you have online. Watching Peter playing is astonishing.

This video of a clear example of mastery 🔥

Genius! 🎉 How it possible to react in a second and go to other song with other rhythm, tonality. It blew my mind!

This whole production and performance is art. And that's not factoring in the piano wizardry!

EPIC. The transitions are just masterful.

That was so sick! You two are incredible on the piano, it really inspires me

CEORA's my recent favourite. Lee Morgan trio is killer, and Herbie..

Thank you so much, gentlemen! That was sooooo fun! Some of those transitions you made on the fly were just wonderful and had me shouting, "yeah" at the screen. And your rhythmic sense is just...[chef's kiss]. I stood throughout the entire video and was on the edge of my seat (umm...even though I was standing...LOL). Wonderfully inspirational...and, I think, the sense of joy was heightened by hearing one great song after another. There is a reason those pieces are "standards!" Yes! 😁

Now that’s a harmonic mental workout! Awesomeness

Peter you are such a killer pianist sir, a true master! Thanks for this lovely video.

I always liked "Up jumped spring".

Love it!

You two are stoopid!! This is fire 🔥 Much love and respect to you and admiration for your infinite creativity. Dang.

These guys are so awesome. We love your videos! Happy Holidays guys...

That's amazing! 👏👏👏

Some of those transitions are super smooth! Really impressive... Peter is a beast!

This is so fun to watch! Feel the love for the music. Thank you Peter and Adam for this video

So very cool. Such smoothness and transitions.

😮 You two are great couple of pianist... I love your podcast!

Fun and very impressive for sure! Thanks for sharing!

This is incredible. Nice work, thank you!

Blue Bossa, Take Five, Spain, Armando's rumba, All of me and lastly probably not a huge standard but i love it Bill Evens Very Early - All these i was missing

Just freakin amazing! Peter!!

Loved this!

Love this!

Incredible!!!🙏

Take it through all 12 keys and you're good to go!

This was dope. I could watch this forever!

okay I am putting this on repeat and learning them all :)

Estate and Sail Away (Tom Harrell) are two running through my head and fingers right now... maybe Easy Living? Speak Low? My Foolish Heart? There's just too many good standards. Great job!

Awesome video! Please upload more like this and maybe playing the two of you together. It was really interesting to see how Peter arrived to the first note of the following tune so smoothly. Also, I'd like to know what are your suggestions in terms of arrangement and voicing to avoid sounding the same when playing similar tunes (bebop, ballads, waltz, modal, etc.)

Absolutely incredible

Ridiculous. What playing. How on earth do you remember all the tunes. Absolutely superb

Unlimited thanks and huge respect for y'all, keep move on🙏🏻

Absolutely increíble!!!

🤟This is one of the best, snappy jazz music video I've ever seen! Congratulations! I had to reflect a bit, a few ones worth adding: Solar Fee Fi Fo Fum Nardis Beautiful Love I Fall In Love Too Easily Four on Six Autumn in New York Inner Urge Chi Chi My Romance I Hear a Rhapsody Blue Bossa

Thank you both!!!

With such grace!!

Please next time let Peter play each tune a little longer. Man those excerpts were just amazing in themselves.

Bravo, Magnifique les gars. Merci excellente idée !

Incredible!!

Very Impressive! Thank You for the Inspiration

Peter's adjusting his glasses and the sly grin before he kicks into gear for Stablemates was definitely like Superman putting on his cape.

Amazing!

There will never be another you

Fantastic !!!

That was awesome!

Peter is amazing! To have that repertoire at your fingertips at a moments notice is incredibly difficult. Yet, he made it appear that it took as much conscious effort as breathing. Inspirational and daunting at the same time for us mere mortals. Bravo, Peter! 👏

Wow! Wow! Wow! Absolutely wonderful! Please do all of these, full versions! ( not on one video haha)

Bravo! That gave me some inspiration to practice today, I’ll throw in joy spring.

This is amazing❤️🙏🏾🎶

Legendary as always guys, amazing!!! I do think Blue in Green, Never Let Me Go, Corcovado and The Nearness Of You should definitely be on the list😂 Peace as always though brothers:-)

Superb ❤ Thank you Sir Peter 😊

Unbelievable...love it guys!!!

Fantastic❤❤❤

This is amazing!

The piano sound is outstanding. Peter on the piano...❤❤❤❤

So great 🤯

very cool!

Such a good vídeo!

Fckn' great stuff and very impressing what you're doing, guys. Thanks for that lot of inspirations 😊

Harlem Nocturne. You guys are the finger Poppin groove Masters. Love.love.love

One of my favorite things on youtube right now. So fun and masterful.

ah man...so good! I want to hear all them in their entirety!

👍🙂 Brilliantly done!

amazing talent

Writing this here to let myself know to learn all of these by the end of the summer.

A.D.D. medley! 🤣 a true master!

Awesome 🎉🎉🎉

Great Fun I hear and See.

That was so fun! Amazing command of this instrument. Couple missing tunes: Beautiful Love But Beautiful Blue Bossa

Brazil is an absolute bop

Holy moly, next level stuff

OMG. Incredible!