Dit is een lijst van jazzcomponisten, alfabetisch gerangschikt. Achter elke naam staat een (selectie van) bekende en/of belangrijke compositie(s) van de componist.
A Nat Adderley — Work Song - Jive Samba Milton Ager — Ain't She Sweet Eden Ahbez — Nature Boy Fred Ahlert — Mean To Me Harry Akst — Am I Blue Ray Anthony — The Young Man With The Horn Harold Arlen — That Old Black Magic - One For My Baby - Over the Rainbow - Stormy Weather - As Long As I Live - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - Come Rain Or Come Shine - Easy Street - Get Happy - I've Got The World On A String - It's Only A Papermoon Gus Arnheim — Sweet And Lovely
B Chet Baker — Look for the Silver Lining - The Thrill Is Gone - Daybreak Ray Barretto — El Watusi Harry Barris — Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams Count Basie — Blue And Sentimental - Jumpin' At The Woodside Art Blakey Rube Bloom — Fools Rush In Jerry Bock — Too Close For Comfort Luiz Bonfá — Black Orpheus Michiel Borstlap — Memory of Enchantment Irving Berlin — Remember - Always - The Best Thing For You - Blue Skies - Cheek To Cheek - How Deep Is The Ocean Jerry Brainin — The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Leslie Bricusse — Who Can I Turn To Nicholas Brodsky — Be My Love - I'll Never Stop Loving You Shelton Brooks — Some Of These Days Clifford Brown — Sandu - Daahoud - Joy Spring Nacio Herb Brown — You Stepped Out Of A Dream Dave Brubeck — Take Five - In Your Own Sweet Way - The Duke - Blue Rondo a la Turk Ralph Burns — Early Autumn Cliff Burwell — Sweet Lorraine
C Hoagy Carmichael — Georgia On My Mind - Rockin' Chair - Skylark - Small Fry - Star Dust - Heart And Soul - The Nearness Of You Richard Carpenter — Walkin' Benny Carter — When Lights Are Low Charlie Chaplin — Smile Frank Churchill — Someday My Prince Will Come Roger Cicero — Männersachen - Beziehungsweise Buck Clayton — Swingin'Along On Broadway Cy Coleman — Witchcraft - Hey, Look Me Over - Blame It on Rio - Sweet Charity - Hey, Big Spender John Coltrane — Trane's Blues - Giant Steps - Cousin Mary - Naima - Impressions J. Fred Coots — You Go To My Head Jamie Cullum — Get your way - London Skies - Photograph - Nothing I do - Mind Trick - 21st Century Kid - 7 days to change your life - Back to the ground - My yard - Twentysomething - Next year - All at Sea
D Tadd Dameron — Lady Bird John Dankworth — thema van De Wrekers, filmmuziek van Modesty Blaise (1966 film) Mack David — Candy Jimmie Davis — You Are My Sunshine Miles Davis — So What - All Blues - Four - Solar - Tune Up - Nardis - Seven Comes Eleven Barbara Dennerlein - Stormy Weather Blues - Pendel der Zeit - New York Impressions - Going Home - Jimmy's Walk Matt Dennis — Violets For Your Furs - Will You Still Be Mine - Angel Eyes - Everything Happens To Me Paul Desmond - Take Five - Audrey Walter Donaldson — Makin' Whoopee - Yes Sir, That's My Baby - You're Driving Me Crazy Kenny Dorham — Blue Bossa - Fair Weather Vernon Duke — What Is There To Say - April In Paris - Autumn in New York - I Can't Get Started Eddie Durham — Topsy
E Duke Ellington — Don't Get Around Much Anymore - I'm Beginning to See the Light - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Caravan - Prelude to a Kiss - Satin Doll - Solitude - Sophisticated Lady - Things Ain't What They Used To Be - What Am I Here For - Come Sunday - Cotton Tail - Day Dream - In A Mellow Tone - In A Sentimental Mood Bill Evans — Waltz For Debby - Time Remembered - Blue in Green - Re: Person I Knew Gil Evans — Blues For Pablo - So Long - Las Vegas Tango
F Sammy Fain — That Old Feeling - Alice In Wonderland Ted FioRito — Toot, Toot, Tootsie Carl Fischer — We'll Be Together Again - You've Changed Clare Fisher — Pensativa Marvin Fisher — When Sunny Gets Blue Frank Foster — Shiny Stockings George Fragos — I Hear A Rhapsody
G Erroll Garner — Misty - Moonglow George Gershwin — Fascinating Rhythm - But Not For Me - I Got Rhythm - Strike Up The band - I Loves You, Porgy - It Ain't Necessarily So - Girl Crazy - Lady, Be Good! - Rhapsody In Blue - Summertime - Somebody Loves Me - Someone To Watch Over Me - Soon - 's Wonderful - They Can't Take That Away From Me - Bidin' My Time - Embraceable You - Love Is Here To Stay - I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' Dizzy Gillespie — Anthropology - A Night in Tunisia - Woody'n You - Birk's Works - Con Alma - Groovin' High Benny Goodman — A Smooth One - Soft Winds Benny Golson — Whisper Not! - Blues March - Along Came Betty - Are You Real - I Remember Clifford Johnny Green — Out of Nowhere - Body and Soul Maria Grever — What A Difference a Day Made Walter Gross — Tenderly Gigi Gryce — Yvette - Wild Wood - Melody Express - Mosquito Knees
H Bob Haggart — What's New Albert Hague — Young And Foolish Jim Hall — Big Blues Wouter Hamel — Breezy - Details - As Long as we're in Love - Don't Ask Lionel Hampton — Red Top Herbie Hancock — Dolphin Dance - Cantaloupe Island - Watermelon Man - Chameleon - Tell Me A Bedtime Story - Maiden Voyage Ray Henderson — Bye Bye, Blackbird - The Birth Of The Blues Neal Hefti — Li'l Darlin' - Cute - Buttercup - Splanky - Blowin' up a Storm - Why Not? - Girl Talk - Batman Theme - Falling in Love All Over Again - Scoot - Bag-a' Bones - Teddy the Toad Arthur Herzog — Don't Explain Jimmy Van Heusen — Like Someone In Love - Polka Dots And Moonbeams - But Beautiful - Darn That Dream - Here's That Rainy Day - I Thought About You - It Could Happen To You Earl Hines — Rosetta Bart Howard — Fly Me To The Moon Jimmy Mc Hugh — On the Sunny Side of the Street - Where Are You - Don't Blame Me Herman Hupfeld — As Time Goes By
I Masaru Imada
J Antônio Carlos Jobim — Desafinado - How Insensitive (Insensatez) - Garota de Ipanema (The Girl From Ipanema) - One Note Samba - Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Triste -Wave - Meditation - Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) J. J. Johnson — Wee-Dot Arthur Johnston — Pennies From Heaven Isham Jones — There Is No Greater Love Thad Jones — A Child Is Born
K Donald Kahn — A Beautiful Friendship Gus Kahn — All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Bronislaw Kaper — On Green Dolphin Street - Invitation Cab Kaye (A.K. Quaye) — Everything Is Go - Jeannette you are my love - Akwilli waba (red peper) Barney Kessel — Swedish Pastry John Klenner — Just Friends Jerome Kern — All The Things You Are - Ol' Man River - The Way You Look Tonight - A Fine Romance - Pick Yourself Up - The Last Time I Saw Paris - Long Ago and Far Away - Smoke gets in your eyes - The Song Is You - Yesterdays - Dearly Beloved Joseph Kosma — Autumn Leaves (Les feuilles mortes)
L Burton Lane — Old Devil Moon - On A Clear Day - How About You Turner Layton — After You've Gone Michel Legrand — Watch What Happens - What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life Frederik Leroux — Angular John Lewis — Django Morgan Lewis — How High The Moon Frank Loesser — On A Slow Boat To China - Two Sleepy People - If I Were A Bell - Inchworm Frederick Loewe — Almost Like Being In Love - I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
M Henry Mancini — The Days of Wine and Roses - Moon River - The Pink Panther Johnny Mandel — The Shadow Of Your Smile - Emily - The Moon Song Gerald Marks — All of Me Wynton Marsalis Pat Metheny Bernie Miller — Bernie's Tune Glenn Miller — Moonlight Serenade Charles Mingus — Goodbye Porkpie Hat - Fables of Faubus - Open Letter To Duke - Meditations Bob Mintzer — Mofongo - Runferyerlife - Mosaic - Horn Man - I Remember Jaco - Blue Hats Sidney Mitchell — You Turned The Tables On Me Thelonious Monk — Well You Needn't - Misterioso - Bemsha Swing - I Mean You - Ruby My Dear - Jackie-ing - Epistrophy - Round About Midnight - Straight, No Chaser - Little Rootie Tootie - Rhythm-a-Ning - Crepuscule With Nellie - Blue Monk Neil Moret — She's Funny That Way Joseph Myrow — You Make Me Feel So Young
N Henry Nemo — Tis Autumn Sammy Nestico — Ya Gotta Try Ray Noble — Cherokee - The Touch Of Your Lips - The Very Thought Of You
O W. Benton Overstreet — There'll Be Some Changes Made L. Ostransky — The Anatomy of Jazz
P Charlie Parker — Anthropology - Au Privave - Billie's Bounce - Blues for Alice - Confirmation - Donna Lee - Now's the Time - Scrapple From The Apple - Yardbird Suite - Barbados - Bloomdido Gene de Paul — Star Eyes - Teach Me Tonight - You Don't Know What Love Is - I'll Remember April Frank Perkins — Stars Fell On Alabama Oscar Peterson — Tricotism Oscar Pettiford — Blues In The Closet Maceo Pinkard — Sweet Georgia Brown - Them There Eyes Cole Porter — I've Got You Under My Skin - Night and Day - What Is This Thing Called Love - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - You Do Something To Me - Anything Goes - Easy To Love - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - It's All Right With Me - Just One Of Those Things - Love For Sale
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R Roger 'Ram' Ramirez — Lover Man Ralph Rainger — Easy Living - Thanks For The Memory Don Redman — Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You Richard Rodgers — Blue Moon - Falling in Love with Love - My Favorite Things - Isn't It Romantic? - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - My Romance - Where Or When - My Funny Valentine - The Lady Is A Tramp - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - Wait Till You See Her - Oh What a Beautiful Mornin' - If I Loved You - You'll Never Walk Alone - It Might As Well Be Spring - Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Spring is Here - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - This Can't Be Love - Thou Swell - With A Song In My Heart - You Are Too Beautiful - You Took Advantage Of Me - Blue Room - Dancing On The Ceiling - I Didn't Know What Time It Was - I Could Write A Book - Lover Sonny Rollins — Doxy - Oleo - Airegin - Pent Up House - Sonnymoon For Two - Strode Rode - St. Thomas - Tenor Madness - Valse Hot - Alfie's Theme Sigmund Romberg — Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise Ann Ronnel — Willow Weep For Me Harry Ruby — Thinking Of You - Three Little Words
S Edgar Sampson — Stompin' At The Savoy Victor Schertzinger — Tangerine Arthur Schwartz — You And The Night And The Music - Alone Together - Dancing In The Dark Charlie Shavers — Undecided George Shearing — Lullaby Of Birdland Wayne Shorter — Footprints - Masqualero - Witch Hunt - El Gaucho - One by One - Palladium Frank Signorelli — Stairway To The Stars Horace Silver — Peace - Sister Sadie - Strollin' - The Preacher - Song For My Father Louis Silvers — April Showers Jimmy Smith Tomasz Stańko Sam H. Stept — Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Jack Strachey — These Foolish Things Billy Strayhorn — Lush Life - Passion Flower - Take the A Train - Chelsea Bridge - Upper Manhattan Medical Group Jule Styne — The Party's Over - People - Things We Did Last Summer - Time After Time - I Fall In Love Too Easily - Just In Time John Surman Einar Swan — When Your Lover Has Gone Kay Swift — Can't We Be Friends
T Jean 'Toots' Thielemans — Bluesette Bobby Timmons — Dat Dere - Moanin' Juan Tizol — Caravan - Perdido Mel Tormé — Born To Be Blue Stanley Turrentine — Sugar McCoy Tyner — Blues à la Mode
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V Marcos Valle — Summer Samba Joe van Enkhuizen — Adieu Inspirer - All Waltz - Beatitude - Blues for Roger - Djancholy - Eurhythmos - Euro Dance - Freedom Waltz - Homing Instinct - It's a Nav vy Waltz - Jean Feve - Love Match - Luctor et Emergo - M.C my Dear - Melancho - Minouet - Mom's Delight - Nanny - Native Soil - Quinte Sens - Sunday the 19th - The Essential Waltz - The Original Threestep - Tootstones - Victory Boogie Waltz - Waltz Ahead - Waltz a ning - Waltzissimo - Waltzology - Waltz Unlimited.
W Mal Waldron — Soul Eyes Fats Waller — Honeysuckle Rose - Ain't Misbehavin' - Black And Blue Harry Warren — The More I See You - September in the Rain - There Will Never Be Another You - You're My Everything - Lulu's Back In Town Ned Washington — When You Wish Upon A Star Paul Weston — I Should Care Spencer Williams — Basin Street Blues Meredith Willson — Till There Was You