are there jazz standards you strongly dislike?

[alocispepraluger102]

i've never ever :blush: :blush: been able to hack jitterburg waltz in any incarnation, including the one with woody shaw i'm now hearing.

[BeBop]

Pop standards, to be more correct, I s'pose.

Playing: Night and Day

Listening: Alfie

[alocispepraluger102]

Pop standards, to be more correct, I s'pose.

Playing: Night and Day

Listening: Alfie

fakebook standards, i s'pose.......

alfie is tedious. that's high on my list, as well.

[Chuck Nessa]

Invitation.

[Matthew]

Blues March. Don't know if it's a standard or not, but since it is off "Moanin'" everyone in the world has heard it. In fact, there is no jazz recording that has the "march beat" that I like, it just grates on my ears and nerves.

[paul secor]

Blues March. Don't know if it's a standard or not, but since it is off "Moanin'" everyone in the world has heard it. In fact, there is no jazz recording that has the "march beat" that I like, it just grates on my ears and nerves.

Me too.

[mjzee]

Cherokee; Sweet Georgia Brown.

[alocispepraluger102]

Blues March. Don't know if it's a standard or not, but since it is off "Moanin'" everyone in the world has heard it. In fact, there is no jazz recording that has the "march beat" that I like, it just grates on my ears and nerves.

bingo!!!!!

Invitation.

i don't recall hearing a jazz version.....

[Pete C]

Invitation.

i don't recall hearing a jazz version.....

Coltrane on The Stardust Sessions and Charles McPherson on Today's Man to name two, and I like both.

Add my name to the Blues March haters club. In a similar vein of hokey is Oliver Nelson's Hoe Down.

[Shawn]

Coltrane's version of Invitation is wonderful.

I also HATE the march beat. There is a variation of it on "Scotch Blues" on the Kenny Burrell Blue Lights release. I hated the introductory section so much I edited it out and re-burned the CD with that edit.

Satin Doll grates on my nerves, always has, not really sure why.

[mjzee]

Invitation.

i don't recall hearing a jazz version.....

Coltrane on The Stardust Sessions and Charles McPherson on Today's Man to name two, and I like both.

Dexter's version (with Philip Catherine) is wonderful.

[JSngry]

Joe Henderson played the shit out of "Invitation" any number of times.

Not too many tunes that I dislike that a really good rhythm section and just the right tempo can't make me dislike less, but "Maiden Voyage", "Nardis", and "Waltz For Debby" come pretty damn close. The first two I once liked (lots) but...

There's others, but those are the first three that spring to mind with no time required to think about it .

Satin Doll grates on my nerves, always has, not really sure why.

Probably because people play it as a "tune" when it's really an orchestral composition.

Same thing with A-Train (and many other Ellington "favorites").

The real meat on those bones is in the section parts, not the lead lines by their lonesome.

[alocispepraluger102]

i dearly love paul and dave, but if i hear TAKE 5 one more time.....

standards are like women. there comes a point where they are just worn out. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Pete C]

Don't play "Misty" for me!

I love the Groove Holmes version.

Cherokee;

Mediocre melody, great changes. Awful lyrics.

Two great blowing tunes that aren't good singer's tunes due to lousy lyrics: Out of Nowhere, I'll Remember April.

[JSngry]

standards are like women. there comes a point where they are just worn out. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Except for the ones who will wear you out long before you wear them out (of which there are more than a few).

Women, that is...

[Larry Kart]

Stella by Starlight kind of grates on me. Also, When Sunny Gets Blue.

[Shawn]

Stella by Starlight kind of grates on me. Also, When Sunny Gets Blue.

I actually heard the source version of Stella By Starlight (the 1944 supernatural film The Uninvited) prior to hearing a jazz version of it. When I first heard the Miles version from 1958 Miles I was like...oh yeah, I've seen that!

[JSngry]

Speaking of "Invitation, the Andrew Hill Robin Kenyatta version is a bit ripe, but so is a good cantaloupe.

Far be it from me to walk away from either.

[GA Russell]

I heartily agree with Sweet Georgia Brown.

And I don't care if I never hear My Funny Valentine again.

[alocispepraluger102]

that whole jobim-getz-clare fischer-gilberto brazilian 60s scene blows big time(i hated it then); girl from ipanima and how insensitive are unbearable.

Edited April 3, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[jeffcrom]

I heartily agree with Sweet Georgia Brown.

And I don't care if I never hear My Funny Valentine again.

One of my favorite musicians' jokes:

Q: How many girl singers does it take to sing "My Funny Valentine?"

A: All of them, apparently.

[Larry Kart]

Stella by Starlight kind of grates on me. Also, When Sunny Gets Blue.

I actually heard the source version of Stella By Starlight (the 1944 supernatural film The Uninvited) prior to hearing a jazz version of it. When I first heard the Miles version from 1958 Miles I was like...oh yeah, I've seen that!

The Uninvited is a fine spooky movie, and Stella fits the dramatic situation nicely.

Another song that kind of grates on me is The Way You Look Tonight.

[Larry Kart]

At one time I got very tired of "Walkin'" and "Bag's Groove," but you don't hear them that much any more.

"'Round Midnight" performed well remains great, but performed by rote, which very often is the case, it's a drag.

"Just Squeeze Me" in its vocal form gives me the willies. The same with "Don't Get Around Much Any More."

"Footprints" has been played into the ground.

Likewise with Dorham's "Blue Bossa."

Perhaps it doesn't really count, but "The Theme."

I'm a big fan of Horace Silver, but "The Preacher" wore out its welcome almost immediately IMO.

[Shawn]

I like "The Way You Look Tonight" when taken at ballad tempo, but it's not a good flag-waver tune as it unfortunately seems to be most of the time.

[Larry Kart]

Its heyday is long past, but at one point "Bernie's Tune" could make you scream.

The same with "Lullaby of Birdland."