Music Recommendations

Classic Jazz Standards – Various Artists

As you start to explore the world of swing music, you’ll find that classic jazz standards are a great place to start searching. You can dig up fantastic versions of all of the following classics.

• I’m Beginning to See the Light
• All of Me
• On the Sunny Side of the Street
• Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
• All Or Nothing At All
• Bye Bye Blackbird
• Honeysuckle Rose
• In A Mellow Tone
• Satin Doll
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Take The “A” Train
• Dedicated to You
• I Can’t Give you Anything But Love
• Just Squeeze Me
• Mack the Knife
• Makin’ Whoopie
• Pennies From Heaven
• Perdido

• Tea For Two
• Them There Eyes
• They Can’t Take That Away from Me
• Shiny Stockings
• Corner Pocket
• Jumpin’ at the Woodside
• Flat Foot Floogie
• Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
• Hit That Jive Jack
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• Why Don’t You Do Right
• C-Jam Blues (aka: Duke’s Place)
• Our Love Is Here To Stay
• Let’s Fall In Love
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• Hello Dolly
• I’ve Got The World On A String
• When You’re Smiling
• Stompin’ at the Savoy

• It Don’t Mean a Thing
• Kansas City (blues)
• Dinah
• Sometimes I’m Happy
• Cheek to Cheek
• Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
• Begin the Beguine
• Flying Home
• Jeepers Creepers
• Corner Pocket
• Jumpin’ At the Woodside
• Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
• Lulaby of Birdland
• Minnie the Moocher
• Sing Sing Sing
• One O’Clock Jump
• Tain’t What You Do
• Undecided

Classic Lindy Hop Artists

THE FOLLOWING LIST IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG TO A WORLD OF FANTASTIC SWINGING JAZZ MUSICIANS

• Louis Armstrong
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Count Basie
• Duke Ellington
• Slim and Slam
• Artie Shaw

• Benny Goodman
• Cab Calloway
• Chick Webb
• Artie Shaw
• Charlie Barnet
• Erskine Hawkins

• Lucky Millinder
• Buddy Johnson
• Artie Shaw
• Jimmie Lunceford
• Lionel Hampton
• Illinois Jacquet

• Fats Waller
• Jimmy Dorsey
• Charlie Barnet
• The Cats & The Fiddle
• Gene Krupa