While many of those jazz tunes jazz artists like to play are from films or Broadway, many are written by jazz musicians. For this episode, from 2019, I feature seven tunes that have become ‘standards’. Two of them were written for films, and the other five specifically to be played by jazz ensembles.

I play tunes written by Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Bernie Miller (for Gerry Mulligan), and Wayne Shorter. And the two film tunes are from Alice in Wonderland and A Hole In The Head.

You’ll hear a couple renditions of some of them.

They’re all great tunes.