Musik jazz merupakan salah satu genre musik populer yang banyak digemari oleh masyarakat. Jazz terkenal karena nada dan iramanya yang slow dan enak didengar. Meski begitu jazz juga ada yang temponya cepat, tergantung padajenis aliran jazz tersebut. Jazz banyak berkembang di negara Eropa dan Amerika Latin. Ada banyak lagu lagu jazz terbaik yang bagus dan enak didengar dengan kualitas musik yang tinggi yang beredar. Beberapa lagu terbaik beraliran jazz banyak dihasilkan oleh para musisi dan penyanyi jazz ternama, baik dari era lama maupun dari penyanyi jazz terbaru di era modern. Penyanyi penyanyi jazz dunia yang populer di kalangan pecinta musik jazz antara lain adalah Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Wes Montgomerry dan masih banyak lagi.
Kumpulan lagu jazz banyak dihasilkan lewat album album jazz populer yang sukses menjadi hits. Lalu lagu jazz apa sajakah yang bisa dikategorikan sebagai yang terbaik dan terpopuler dengan musik berkualitas yang easy listening? Berikut tim Museum Musik akan tampilkan list 100 lagu jazz yang paling populer dalam sejarah industri musik.
1. “So What” – Miles Davis
2. “My Favorite Things” – John Coltrane
3. “Take Five” – Dave Brubeck
4. “Acknowledgement” – John Coltrane
5. “Birdland” – Weather Report
6. “Freddie Freeloader” – Miles Davis
7. “Psalm” – John Coltrane
8. “Strange Fruit” – Billie Holiday
9. “Salt Peanuts” – Dizzy Gillespie
10. “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” – Cannonball Adderley
11. “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” – Charles Mingus
12. “Chameleon” – Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
13. “Straight Life” – Freddy Hubbard
14. “The Creator has a Master Plan” – Pharaoh Sanders
15. “Blue in Green” – Miles Davis
16. “One O’Clock Jump” – Count Basie
17. “Bumpin’ on Sunset” – Wes Montgomery
18. “Naima” – John Coltrane
19. “Back at the Chicken Shack” –Jimmy Smith
20. “Mister Magic” – Grover Washington, Jr.
21. “Giant Steps” – John Coltrane
22. “In a Silent Way” – Miles Davis
23. “Dolphin Dance” – Herbie Hancock
24. “In N’ Out” – Joe Henderson
25. “Resolution” – John Coltrane
26. “Alone Together” – Grant Green
27. “St. Louis Blues” – W.C. Handy
28. “Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra
29. “Tipitina” – Professor Longhair
30. “Breakfast Feud” – Charlie Christian
31. “Naguine” – Django Reinhardt
32. “It Might as Well be Spring” – Sarah Vaughan
33. “Captain Fingers” – Lee Ritenour
34. “Science Funktion” – Donald Byrd
35. “Blue Rondo A La Turk” – Dave Brubeck
36. “A Remark You Made” – Weather Report
37. “Black Satin” – Miles Davis
38. “Just the Two of Us” – Grover Washington, Jr.
39. “Minnie the Moocher” – Cab Calloway
40. “Aerial Boundaries” – Michael Hedges
41. “Red Clay” – Freddie Hubbard
42. “Round Midnight” – Thelonious Monk
43. “Bright Size Life” – Pat Metheny
44. “Maiden Voyage” – Herbie Hancock
45. “Portrait of Tracy” – Jaco Pastorious
46. “Mood Indigo” – Duke Ellington
47. “Body & Soul” – Coleman Hawkins
48. “Moanin’” – Art Blakey
49. “Straight, No Chaser” – Thelonious Monk
50. “Right Off” – Miles Davis
51. “Jelly Roll Blues” – Jelly Roll Morton
52. “Stratus” – Billy Cobham
53. “(They call me) Dr. Professor Longhair” – Professor Longhair
54. “Sun Goddess” – Ramsey Lewis
55. “Miles Beyond” – Mahavishnu Orchestra
56. “Fables of Faubus” – Charles Mingus
57. “Room 335” – Larry Carlton
58. “Epistrophy” – Thelonious Monk
59. “The Girl From Ipanema” – Getz/Gilberto
60. “Lonely Woman” – Ornette Coleman
61. “The Perfect Man” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra
62. “Hello, Dolly” – Louis Armstrong
63. “Chasin’ the Bird” – Charlie Parker
64. “Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy” – Return to Forever
65. “God Bless the Child” – Billie Holiday
66. “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” – Jeff Beck
67. “Tea for Two” – Art Tatum
68. “Volunteered Slavery” – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
69. “Pharoah’s Dance” – Miles Davis
70. “A Night in Tunisia” – Sonny Rollins
71. “Pursuance” – John Coltrane
72. “Satin Doll” – Duke Ellington
73. “Speak no Evil” – Wayne Shorter
74. “Chitlins Con Carne” – Kenny Burrell
75. “Potato Head Blues” – Louis Armstrong
76. “My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now” – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
77. “Cover Girl” – Larry Coryell
78. “Willow Weep for Me” – Wes Montgomery
79. “A Long Drink of the Blues” – Jackie McLean
80. “Three Views of a Secret” – Jaco Pastorious
81. “Places and Spaces” – Donald Byrd
82. “When you’re in Love” – Horace Silver
83. “Lazy River” – Pete Fountain
84. “Tones for Elvin Jones” – John McLaughlin
85. “Icarus” – Winter Consort
86. “Bemsha Swing” – Thelonious Monk
87. “Moon Tune” – Bob James/David Sanborn
88. “Eternal Child” – Chick Corea’s Elektric Band
89. “Out of the Night” – Brian Melvin Trio
90. “School Days” – Stanley Clarke
91. “Five Hundred Miles High” – Stan Getz
92. “Hog Callin’ Blues” – Charles Mingus
93. “My Funny Valentine” – Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker
94. “Race with Devil on Spanish Highway” – Al DiMeola
95. “Moritat” – Sonny Rollins
96. “Son of Mr. Green Genes” – Frank Zappa
97. “Big Chief” – Professor Longhair
98. “Anonymous Skulls” – Medeski, Martin & Wood
99. “The Hong Kong Incident” – Jing Chi
100. “Hamp’s Hump” - Galactic
Itulah info update mengenai 100 lagu jazz paling populer sepanjang masa. Daftar tersebut tentunya bersifat subyektif. Lagu lagu tersebut bisa didownload file mp3 nya secara gratis di internet. Bagi para pecinta jazz sejati tentu sudah tidak asing dengan beberapa lagu jazz terbaik di atas, meski mungkin ada yang belum familiar. Semoga info diatas bisa menjadi referensi untuk penggemar musik jazz.
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