I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Manus. Welcome to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Today, we're going to talk about 17 standards every jazz player should know.

And that's it, right? We just learned 17 and we're done.

17 and you're done. Then you're a jazz player.

Jazz is so easy in our introductions.

Absolutely. Okay. Yes, in reality, it would behoove you to learn a few more than these 17. But we're going to do 17 because we love in the 17, 7, 27. Well, why don't we give them 27? Wouldn't it be 10 better? Yeah, we'd be here all day. We couldn't do that. Okay. But these are good.

Actually, these 17 are ones that you definitely don't want to be called out on not knowing if they get called.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I mean, these, you have to know these. Totally. And there's really a bunch more that you have to. But one thing I would just say to you, it is something that one of the few things that I, organizationally, that I really do well when I was young.

And that was, I always kept a little log, a little book of tunes that I needed to learn. And sometimes it's just as simple as that, just a little catalog, ones that I knew, and ones that I needed to learn. And when I went to a gig or a jam session, or even read something or heard an interview when someone would drop a tune, I was like, ugh, I guess I got to know that one.

And you can't learn them, and you shouldn't learn them all in one day or one week or even one month, because you want to learn these deeply. We talk about that all the time. Yep. But these are definitely ones you're going to want to get together before you're, you know, getting a website saying, hey, I'm a jazz musician, you know, or business cards printed up as a jazz player.

Yeah, you better, getting a website saying, hey, I'm a jazz musician, you know, or business cards printed up as a jazz player.

You better know these seven.

You have to.

I think the business card companies should quiz you about this before you let you put jazz musicians on your card.

Okay, so I'm going to kick it off with one that if you're on the gig and somebody calls it and you didn't know it, you might be physically hurt by some of the other musicians or some of the people in the audience or just some random seven-year-old kid walking along.

I would authorize that kind of damage to you no matter what.

We joke about the jazz please, but I might deputize myself if someone didn't know this one.

Okay, this is take the a train.

So this is a universally loved and somewhat

scorn tune at this point because it's so well-known. But it's such a classic Duke

Ellington. Oh man, it's so swinging. It's such a standard. People love it. People know it

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