I have spent hours collecting titles of tunes commonly played by traditional jazz bands. Here's the first batch - titles from A to B.
Ace in the Hole
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Mitchell & Dempsey
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1909
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A Flower Lei
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Johnny Noble & Bert
Carlson
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1929
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A Foggy Day in London Town
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George Gershwin (m) &
Ira Gershwin (w)
|
1937
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After the Ball
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Chas. Harris
|
1892
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After My Laughter Came Tears
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Charles Tobias & Roy
Turk
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1928
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After You've Gone
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Creamer & Layton
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1917
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Again
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Lionel Newman (m) &
Dorcas Cochran (w)
|
1948
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Aggravatin' Papa
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Roy Turk & J. Russell
Robinsom
|
1922
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Ain't Misbehavin'
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Harry Brooks & Fats
Waller (m) & Andy Razaf (w)
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1929
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Ain't She Sweet
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Jack Yellen & Milton
Ager
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1927
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Ain't We Got Fun?
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Kahn & Egan Whiting
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1921
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Alabamy Bound
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Henderson, Da Sylva, Green
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1925
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Berlin
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1913
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Algiers Strut
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Allegedly Kid Thomas;
actually Glen Moore and Seger Ellis
|
1946
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Alice Blue Gown
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Harry Tierney Joe McCarthy
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1919
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All Alone by the Telephone
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Berlin
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1924
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All By Myself
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Irving Berlin
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1921
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All of Me
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Seymour Simons and Gerald
Marks
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1932
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All I Do is Dream of You
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Nacio H Brown and A Freed
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1934
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Alligator Crawl
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Thomas 'Fats' Waller
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1927
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Alligator Hop
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Lil Hardin and King Oliver
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1923
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Alligator Pond Went Dry
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? Victoria Spivey
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1927
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All I Want is a Spoonful
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'Papa' Charlie Jackson
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1925
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All My Tomorrows
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James Van Heusen (m) and
Sammy Cahn
|
1959
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All That I Ask of You is
Love
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Herbert Ingraham (m) &
Edgar Selden (w)
|
1910
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All That Meat and No
Potatoes
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Thomas 'Fats' Waller &
Ed Kirkeby
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1941
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All the things You Are
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Kern & Hammerstein
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1939
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Almost Afraid of Love
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Ann Turner
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1938
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A Lovely Way to Spend an
Evening
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Jimmy McHugh (m) &
Harold Adamson (w)
|
1943
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Am I Blue?
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Harry Akst (m), Grant Clark
|
1929
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Amapola
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Joseph LaCalle (Sp.)
|
1924
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Amazing Grace
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John Newton
|
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Ambulance Man
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Hattie Hart
|
1930
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American Patrol
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F Meecham
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1885
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Among My Souvenirs
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Horatio Nicholls (=Lawrence
Wright) & Edgar Leslie
|
1927
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Amor
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Gabriel Ruiz (m) &
Ricardo Mendez (orignl wds)
|
1941
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Angry
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Dudley Mecum Jules Cassard
Henry Brunies Merritt Brunies
|
1923
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Annie Laurie
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Alicia Scott
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1834
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Anniversary Waltz
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Dave Franklin (m) and Al
Dubin (w)
|
1941
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Any Kind a Man Would Be
Better Than You
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Hattie McDaniel
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1929
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Any Time
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H H Lawson
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1921
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Anything Goes
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Cole Porter
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1934
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Apex Blues
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Jimmy Noone, Joe Poston,
Earl Hines
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1927
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April in Paris
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Vernon Duke
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1932
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April Showers
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B.G.DeSylva & Louis
Silvers
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1921
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Are You Havin' Any Fun
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Sammy Fain (m) & Jack
Yellen (w)
|
1939
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Are You Lonesome Tonight
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Turk & Handman
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1926
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As Time Goes By
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H Hupfield
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1931
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As You Like It
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Paul Barnes
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1927
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At a Georgia Camp Meeting
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Kerry Mills
|
1897
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A Tisket A Tasket
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Ella Fitzgerald and Al
Feldman ('Van Alexander') but based on ancient nursery rhyme
|
1938
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At Last
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Warren & Gordon
|
1942
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At Sundown
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Walter Donaldson
|
1927
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At the Codfish Ball
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Lew Pollack and Sidney
Mitchell
|
1936
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At the Cross
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Isaac Watts (w) and Ralph E.
Hudson (mus)
|
1885
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At the Jazz Band Ball
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Nick La Rocca & Larry
Shields
|
1918
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At the Mardi Gras
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Opler & Mercer
|
1931
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Atlanta Blues
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Handy
|
1923
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Auf Wiedersehen
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Sexton, Turner, Storch
|
1949
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Aunt Hagar’s Blues
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Handy
|
1920
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Autumn Leaves
|
Joseph Kosna & Jacques
Prevert (Engl. Mercer)
|
1947
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Avalon
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Al Jolson, Da Sylva, Vincent
Rose
|
1920
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Baby Face
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Benny Davis & Harry Akst
|
1926
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Baby, How Can It Be?
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Armenter Bo Chatmon [stage
name Bo Carter] recorded it in 1931
|
1931
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Baby Won't You Please Come
Home
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Clarence Williams &
Charles Warfield
|
1919
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Back in Your Own Backyard
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Dreyer, Rose, Jolson
|
1927
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Backwater Blues
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Bessie Smith
|
1927
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Ballin'
The Jack
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J Burris & Chris Smith
(& possibly James Reese Europe)
|
1913
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Baltimore
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Jimmy McHugh (m) & Danny
Healy & Irving Kahal (w)
|
1927
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Banjoreno
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Clifford Hayes (&
possibly Henry Clifford)
|
1926
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Barefoot Boy
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Herb Morand
|
1938
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Bare Necessities
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Terry Gilkyson
|
1966
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Barnyard Blues
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Ray Lopez & Alcide
'Yellow' Nunes
|
1917
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Basin Street Blues
|
Spencer Williams
|
1923
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Basin Street Stomp
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Pete Fountain, Roy Zimmerman et al
|
1951
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Battle Hymn of the Repblc
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Julia Ward
|
1862
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Battle of New Orleans
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Trad 'The 8th
of January' (m) & Jimmy Driftwood (w)
|
1959
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Beale Street Blues
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W C Handy
|
1916
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Beale Street Momma
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J R Robinson and Turk
|
1923
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Stephen Foster
|
1864
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Bedelia
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Jean Schwartz (m) &
William Jerome (w)
|
1903
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Beer Barrel Polka
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Brown, Timm, Vejvada
|
1934
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Beer Garden Blues
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Lewis Raymond & Clarence
Williams (m) & Walter Bishop (w)
|
1933
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
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Jacobs & Secunda
|
1933
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Bellamina
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Anon (in Bahamas)
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Approx 1925
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Bells of St. Mary’s
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Furber & Adams
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1917
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Beneath Hawaiian Skies
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Brandner 1940s?
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?1940
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Besame Mucho
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Consuelo Velazquez
|
1941
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Best Things in Life are Free
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Henderson, Da Sylva, Brown
|
1927
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Between the Devil and the
Deep-Blue Sea
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Harold Arlen (m) and Ted
Koehler (w)
|
1932
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Beyond the Sunset
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Blanche and Virgil Brock
|
1936
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Big Bear Stomp
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Lu Watters
|
1944
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Big Butter and Egg Man
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Venables & Armstrong
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1926
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Big Chief Battleaxe
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T Allen
|
1907
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Big House Blues
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Ellington
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1930
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Big Noise from Winnetka
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Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil
Rodin, Bob Crosby
|
1940
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Bill Bailey
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Hughie Cannon
|
1909
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Billy Goat Stomp
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Jelly Roll Morton
|
1927
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Bird in a Gilded Cage
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Harry Von Tilzer (m) &
Arthur J. Lamb (w)
|
1900
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Birth of the Blues
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Buddy De Sylva & Lew
Brown & Ray Henderson
|
1927
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Biscuit Roller
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Richard M Jones and Georgia
White
|
1937
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Black and Blue
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Waller and Razaf
|
1929
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Black and Tan Fantasy
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Ellington & Miley
|
1927
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Black Bottom
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Ray Henderson, Da Sylva,
Brown
|
1926
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Black Bottom Stomp
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Morton
|
1926
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Black Cat on the Fence
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Charlie Love
|
1949
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Black Coffee
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P. Webster & S. Burke
|
1948
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Black Eye Blues
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'Georgia' Tom Dorsey
|
1928
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Black Rag
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William Ridgley
|
1925
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Blame it on the Blues
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Charles C Cooke
|
1914
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Blue and Broken Hearted
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Lou Handman, Grant Clarke,
Edgar Leslie
|
1922
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Blue Chime Stomp
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Shaye Cohn
|
2015
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Blue Drag
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Jose Myrow
|
1932
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Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
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Fred Rose
|
1945
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Blue Moon
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Rodgers & Hart
|
1934
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Blue Moon of Kentucky
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Bill Monroe
|
1946
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Blue Room
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Lorenz Hart & Richard
Rodgers
|
1927
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Blues in my Heart
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Benny Carter and Irving
Mills
|
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Blue Skies
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Berlin
|
1927
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Blue Spirit Blues
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Spencer Williams
|
1929
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Blue Turning Grey Over You
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Razaf & Waller
|
1929
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Bluebells Goodbye
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Egbert
Van Alstyne (m), Harry H Williams (w)
|
1905
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Blueberry Hill
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Al Lewis, Larry Stock,
Vincent Rose
|
1940
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Blues in the Night
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H Arlen and J Mercer
|
1941
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Blues My Naughty Sweetie
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Arthur Swanstone, Chas
McCarron, Carey Morgan
|
1919
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Bluin’ the Blues
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Ragas
|
1919
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Bobby Shafto
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Anon.
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19th
C
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Body and Soul
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J. Green (m), Sour, Heyman &
Eyton
|
1930
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Bogalusa Strut
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Sam Morgan
|
1927
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Boodle Am Shake
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Jack Palmer and Spencer
Williams
|
1926
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Bouncing Around
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Piron & Bocage
|
1923
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Bourbon Street Parade
|
Paul Barbarin
|
1950
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Breeze
|
Joe Goodwin, Ballard
MacDonald, James Hanley
|
1919
|
Breezing along with the
Breeze
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James 'Haven' Gillespie &
Egbert Van Alstyne
|
1925
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Bright Star Blues
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Armand Piron & Peter
Bocage
|
1924
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Bring Me Sunshine
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Sylvia Dee & Arthur Kent
|
1966
|
Broken Hearted Blues
|
Erika Lewis
|
2009
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Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue
|
A. Bryan & G. Meyer
|
1925
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Brownskin Mamma
|
Jimmy Blythe
|
1928
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Buddy Bolden’s Blues
|
(J.R. Morton – from
earlier theme?)
|
1939
|
Buddy's Habit
|
Arnett Nelson and Charles
Straight
|
1923
|
Bugle Boy March
|
Francis Myers
|
1907
|
Bugle Call Rag
|
Pettis, Schoebel &
Meyers
|
1923
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Buona Sera
|
Carl Sigman & Peter De
Rose
|
1950
|
Burgundy Street Blues
|
George Lewis
|
1944
|
Busted
|
Harlan Howard
|
1962
|
But Beautiful
|
Johnny Burke & James Van
Heusen
|
1947
|
Butter and Egg Man
|
Percy Venable (?and
Armstrong)
|
1926
|
Button Up Your Overcoat
|
Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown,
Ray Henderson
|
1929
|
Bye and Bye
|
Charles Albert Tindley
|
1906
|
Bye Bye Baby
|
Styne & Robin
|
1949
|
Bye Bye Blackbird
|
Mort Dixon & Ray
Henderson
|
1926
|
Bye Bye Blues
|
Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett,
Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray
|
1930
|
By The Fireside
|
Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell,
Reg Connelly
|
1931
|
By the Light of the Silvery
Moon
|
Gus Edwards & Ed Madden
|
1909
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