I've selected six tunes that I commonly hear at the Tuesday night jam sessions at Edmonton's Yardbird Suite jazz club. And I've added one that I wish would get played---as it's the only tune in the oft use Real Book Vol. 1 Sixth Edition written by a woman. And one of the very few written by a Canadian.

So here they are:

Dexterity

In A Mellotone (sometimes spelled 'Mellow Tone')

Bye Bye Blackbird

Oleo

Impressions

Straight No Chaser.

And the one written by a Canadian female? I'll Never Smile Again.

I play recordings by Oscar Peterson & Dave Young, Django Reinhardt, Frank Sinatra w. Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Rachel Caswell, Bjorn Johansen, Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra, McCoy Tyner, and Duke Ellington., and a bit from The Harmonizers.