Jazz with John
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| Song Title | Composer(s) | Show/Source |
|---|---|---|
| GONE WITH THE WIND | Allie Wrubel (music), Herb Magidson (lyrics) | Published in 1937 (not related to the film) |
| ONCE IN A LIFETIME | Anthony Newley (music), Leslie Bricusse (lyrics) | Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961) |
| CORCOVADO | Antonio Carlos Jobim (music and original Portuguese lyrics), Gene Lees (English lyrics) | Bossa nova standard (1960) |
| DINDI | Antonio Carlos Jobim (music), Aloysio de Oliveira (Portuguese lyrics), Ray Gilbert (English lyrics) | Bossa Nova standard (1960s) |
| DESAFINADO | Antonio Carlos Jobim (music), Newton Mendonça (lyrics), Jon Hendricks/Gene Lees (English lyrics) | Bossa Nova standard (1959) |
| GIRL FROM IPANEMA | Antonio Carlos Jobim (music), Vinícius de Moraes (Portuguese lyrics), Norman Gimbel (English lyrics) | Bossa nova standard (1962) |
| TRISTE | Antônio Carlos Jobim | Bossa nova tune (1966) |
| WAVE | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Album: Wave (1967) |
| ONCE I LOVED | Antonio Carlos Jobim (music), Vinícius de Moraes and Ray Gilbert (lyrics) | Brazilian standard (original: ‘Uma Vez Eu Amei’) |
| CRY ME A RIVER | Arthur Hamilton | Originally written for film ‘Pete Kelly’s Blues’ (cut before release) |
| PENNIES FROM HEAVEN | Arthur Johnston (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Film: Pennies from Heaven (1936) |
| I SHOULD CARE | Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn | Film: Thrill of a Romance (1945) |
| FLY ME TO THE MOON | Bart Howard | Originally titled ‘In Other Words’ (1954) |
| WHISPER NOT | Benny Golson | Published in 1956 |
| JUST THE WAY YOU ARE | Billy Joel | Album: The Stranger (1977) |
| NEW YORK STATE OF MIND | Billy Joel | Album: Turnstiles (1976) |
| PIANO MAN | Billy Joel | Album: Piano Man (1973) |
| TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN | Billy Strayhorn | Signature tune of Duke Ellington Orchestra |
| GREEN DOLPHIN STREET | Bronisław Kaper (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) | Film: Green Dolphin Street (1947) |
| INVITATION | Bronisław Kaper (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) | Film: Invitation (1952) |
| SINCE I FELL FOR YOU | Buddy Johnson | First recorded in 1945 |
| ON A CLEAR DAY (YOU CAN SEE FOREVER) | Burton Lane (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) |
| OLD DEVIL MOON | Burton Lane (music), Yip Harburg (lyrics) | Finian’s Rainbow (1947) |
| A LOT OF LIVIN’ TO DO | Charles Strouse (music), Lee Adams (lyrics) | Bye Bye Birdie (1960) |
| BYE BYE BIRDIE | Charles Strouse (music), Lee Adams (lyrics) | Bye Bye Birdie (1960) |
| MY WAY | Claude François and Jacques Revaux (music), Paul Anka (English lyrics) | Popularized by Frank Sinatra (1969) |
| DAAHOUD | Clifford Brown | First recorded 1954 with Max Roach |
| DREAM DANCING | Cole Porter | Film: You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) |
| I CONCENTRATE ON YOU | Cole Porter | Film: Broadway Melody of 1940 |
| I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU | Cole Porter | Anything Goes (1934) |
| I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN | Cole Porter | Film: Born to Dance (1936) |
| WITCHCRAFT | Cy Coleman (music), Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) | Published in 1957 |
| DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME | Duke Ellington (music), Bob Russell (lyrics) | Ellington Orchestra (1940s) |
| DON’T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE | Duke Ellington (music), Bob Russell (lyrics) | Originally ‘Never No Lament’ (1940) |
| SATIN DOLL | Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | Jazz composition (1953) |
| SHINY STOCKINGS | Frank Foster (music), Jon Hendricks (lyrics) | Count Basie Orchestra (1955) |
| GUYS AND DOLLS | Frank Loesser | Guys and Dolls (1950) |
| I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE | Frank Loesser | Guys and Dolls (1950) |
| IF I WERE A BELL | Frank Loesser | Guys and Dolls (1950) |
| LUCK BE A LADY | Frank Loesser | Guys and Dolls (1950) |
| ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA | Frank Loesser | Published in 1948 |
| CHICAGO | Fred Fisher | Published in 1922 |
| MY FAIR LADY MEDLEY | Frederick Loewe (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO | George Cory (music), Douglass Cross (lyrics) | Popularized by Tony Bennett (1962) |
| I HEAR A RHAPSODY | George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre | First hit in 1941 (film appearances later) |
| I LOVES YOU PORGY | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward (lyrics) | Porgy and Bess (1935) |
| BUT NOT FOR ME | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Girl Crazy (1930) |
| EMBRACEABLE YOU | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Girl Crazy (1930) |
| FOGGY DAY | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Film: A Damsel in Distress (1937) |
| MAN I LOVE | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Originally cut from multiple shows (ultimately a standalone hit) |
| OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Film: The Goldwyn Follies (1938) |
| SOON | George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Strike Up the Band (1930) |
| LULLABY OF BIRDLAND | George Shearing (music), George David Weiss (lyrics, as ‘B. Y. Forster’) | Named after NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club (1952) |
| ALL OF ME | Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons | Â |
| LINE FOR LYONS | Gerry Mulligan | Jazz composition (1952) |
| COME RAIN OR COME SHINE | Harold Arlen (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | St. Louis Woman (1946) |
| ILL WIND | Harold Arlen (music), Ted Koehler (lyrics) | Cotton Club Parade (1934) |
| STORMY WEATHER | Harold Arlen (music), Ted Koehler (lyrics) | Cotton Club Parade (1933) |
| IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON | Harold Arlen (music), Yip Harburg and Billy Rose (lyrics) | Play: The Great Magoo (1932) |
| WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS | Harry Barris (music), Ted Koehler and Billy Moll (lyrics) | Published in 1931 |
| THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU | Harry Warren (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) | Film: Iceland (1942) |
| DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES | Henry Mancini (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | Film: Days of Wine and Roses (1962) |
| MASQUERADE IS OVER | Herb Magidson (lyrics), Allie Wrubel (music) | Published in 1938 |
| DOLPHIN DANCE | Herbie Hancock | Album: Maiden Voyage (1965) |
| STARDUST | Hoagy Carmichael (music), Mitchell Parish (lyrics) | Published in 1927 (lyrics added 1929) |
| NICA’S DREAM | Horace Silver | Blue Note release (1956) |
| CHEEK TO CHEEK | Irving Berlin | Top Hat (1935) |
| HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN | Irving Berlin | Published as a standalone (1932) |
| UNFORGETTABLE | Irving Gordon | Published in 1951 |
| THESE FOOLISH THINGS | Jack Strachey (music), Eric Maschwitz (lyrics, under pen name Holt Marvell) | British cabaret song (1936) |
| THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT | Jerome Kern (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics) | Film: Swing Time (1936) |
| I’M OLD FASHIONED | Jerome Kern (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | Film: You Were Never Lovelier (1942) |
| ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE | Jerome Kern (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | Very Warm for May (1939) |
| CAN’T HELP LOVIN’ DAT MAN | Jerome Kern (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | Show Boat (1927) |
| NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES | Jerry Brainin (music), Buddy Bernier (lyrics) | Film: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) |
| IT’S THE TALK OF THE TOWN | Jerry Livingston (music), Marty Symes and Al J. Neiburg (lyrics) | Published in 1933 |
| SUMMER NIGHTS | Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey | Grease (1971 stage musical, 1978 film) |
| LOVER MAN | Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, James Sherman | Published in 1941 |
| DARN THAT DREAM | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Eddie DeLange (lyrics) | Swingin’ the Dream (1939) |
| BUT BEAUTIFUL | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Road to Rio (1947) |
| HERE’S THAT RAINY DAY | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Carnival in Flanders (1953) |
| IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Film: And the Angels Sing (1944) |
| LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Film: Belle of the Yukon (1944) |
| POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | Published in 1940 |
| I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | Published in 1939 |
| COME FLY WITH ME | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) | Written for Frank Sinatra’s album (1958) |
| MOMENT’S NOTICE | John Coltrane | Blue Train (1957) |
| NEW YORK, NEW YORK | John Kander (music), Fred Ebb (lyrics) | Film: New York, New York (1977) |
| BODY AND SOUL | Johnny Green (music), Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (lyrics) | Three’s a Crowd (1930) |
| AUTUMN LEAVES | Joseph Kosma (music), Jacques Prévert (French lyrics), Johnny Mercer (English lyrics) | Les Portes de la nuit (1946) |
| I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY | Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) | Film: Anchors Aweigh (1945) |
| MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT | Karl Suessdorf (music), John Blackburn (lyrics) | Published in 1944 |
| SPEAK LOW | Kurt Weill (music), Ogden Nash (lyrics) | One Touch of Venus (1943) |
| CEORA | Lee Morgan | Album: Cornbread (1965) |
| THIS MASQUERADE | Leon Russell | Album: Carney (1972) |
| LUCKY TO BE ME | Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) | On the Town (1944) |
| WEST SIDE STORY MEDLEY | Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) | West Side Story (1957) |
| SERENATA | Leroy Anderson (music), Mitchell Parish (lyrics) | Instrumental (1947), lyrics added later |
| WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961) |
| WHO CAN I TURN TO | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1964) |
| DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS | Louis Alter (music), Eddie DeLange (lyrics) | Film: New Orleans (1947) |
| BLACK ORPHEUS | Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria | Orfeu Negro (1959) |
| THE DOLPHIN | Luiz Eça | Brazilian jazz standard (1960s) |
| A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE | Manning Sherwin (music), Eric Maschwitz (lyrics) | Published in 1940 (British wartime tune) |
| SUMMER SAMBA | Marcos Valle (music), Paulo Sérgio Valle and Norman Gimbel (lyrics) | Original: ‘Samba de Ver√£o’ (1964) |
| WHEN SUNNY GETS BLUE | Marvin Fisher (music), Jack Segal (lyrics) | Published in 1956 |
| WATCH WHAT HAPPENS | Michel Legrand (music), Norman Gimbel (English lyrics) | Film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) |
| NARDIS | Miles Davis | Written for Bill Evans (1958) |
| FOUR | Miles Davis (often attributed), sometimes Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson | Jazz single (1954) |
| BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH | Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman | Â |
| GOODBYE MR EVANS | Phil Woods | Jazz tribute (1980s) |
| EASY LIVING | Ralph Rainger (music), Leo Robin (lyrics) | Film: Easy Living (1937) |
| IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU | Ralph Rainger (music), Leo Robin (lyrics) | Film: Rose of the Rancho (1935) |
| CHEROKEE | Ray Noble | British dance band repertoire (1938) |
| THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU | Ray Noble | Published in 1934 |
| I COULD WRITE A BOOK | Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics) | Pal Joey (1940) |
| LOVER | Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics) | Film: Love Me Tonight (1932) |
| MY ROMANCE | Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics) | Jumbo (1935) |
| HELLO YOUNG LOVERS | Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | The King and I (1951) |
| IF I LOVED YOU | Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | Carousel (1945) |
| IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING | Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | Film: State Fair (1945) |
| KING AND I MEDLEY | Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | The King and I (1951) |
| OKLAHOMA MEDLEY | Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | Oklahoma! (1943) |
| BEWITCHED | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Pal Joey (1940) |
| BLUE MOON | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Hollywood Party (1934) |
| DEL SASSER | Sam Jones | Album: Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959) |
| BEATRICE | Sam Rivers | Â |
| ALICE IN WONDERLAND | Sammy Fain (music), Bob Hilliard (lyrics) | Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
| SOFTLY AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE | Sigmund Romberg (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | The New Moon (1928) |
| THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG | Steve Allen | The Steve Allen Show (1956) |
| BLUESETTE | Toots Thielemans | Â |
| AUTUMN IN NEW YORK | Vernon Duke | Thumbs Up! (1934) |
| I CAN’T GET STARTED | Vernon Duke (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics) | Ziegfeld Follies (1936) |
| I REMEMBER YOU | Victor Schertzinger (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | Film: The Fleet’s In (1942) |
| MAKIN’ WHOOPEE | Walter Donaldson (music), Gus Kahn (lyrics) | Ziegfeld Follies of 1928 |
| TENDERLY | Walter Gross (music), Jack Lawrence (lyrics) | Published in 1946 |
| MOONGLOW | Will Hudson and Irving Mills (music), Eddie DeLange (lyrics) | Published in 1933 |
Set the mood and savor your supper with Jazz with John, featuring Denver’s own John Hayden—renowned pianist and local jazz legend. With decades of performing experience and a signature smooth style, John brings rich harmonies and soulful swing to our sing-along piano bar every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 6–9pm.
Whether you’re a seasoned vocalist or just feeling the vibe, come share a song and make it your own. Jazz singers especially welcome—John’s ready to play, improvise, and elevate your favorite standards.
Dinner, drinks, and jazz—what more do you need?