Favourite jazz song

[Spax]

What's your favourite jazz song?

[FordGranada1]

A bit of an obvious choice maybe, but my favourite is Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five'.

[Greedyfly]

Not a song but my favorite artist at the moment is: Silje Negaard

[coggles]

Relaxin' At Camarillo or Now's the Time - Charlie Parker

[andy hughes]

It's not a 'song' as such - it's instrumental, but 'Nuages' by Django Reinhardt gets my vote.

[sft42]

Have you ever seen "The Commitments"? The point when the saxophone player is having a pee? Jazz is musical masturbation, very little discipline or form usually just egos clashing, and everyone atonally soloing away....There are very few good jazz songs but I suppose if pushed I'd go for Billie Holiday's Summertime.

[mikewith]

So What by Miles Davis or TheSidewinder by Lee Morgan: obvious, I know, (and shows that I haven't listened to any new jazz for 40 years) but there's a reason why great music is recognised as great music: it is great!

[davejazz]

mine is Louis Armstrong doing "when it's sleepy time down south" and my second would be Clarence Williams "sugar foot stomp" followed thirdly by Clarence Williams "Candy Lips"

[charliep88]

 Dear SFT 42 , your interpretation pof JAZZ needs mending . I will agree that third stream , atonal jazz may fit your description,BUT if you were to listen to some of the many jazz groups of the past , whose music is as valid today as ever ie;BRUBECK__ MJQ__BILL EVANS== BIRD__ PETERSON__and dozens more , the music they play is a very structured thing