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- Nat King Cole - Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C# Minor
- Leonard Bernstein - Tonight (from West Side Story, original 1957 Broadway cast recordings)
- A Foggy Day · Benny Carter · Oscar Peterson
- Amazing Grace
- Londonderry Air (better known as “Danny Boy”) (Live) - Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall
- Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller
- Julie Andrews - I Have Confidence
- Step In Time from Mary Poppins
- Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op.43, Variation 18 performed by Daniil Trifonov
- Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”, II. Andante Molto Mosso; Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by David Zinman
- The Beatles - Let It Be
- Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica”: I. Allegro con brio; Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by David Zinman
- Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: IV. Allegro; Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by David Zinman
- Richard Rodgers - conducted by Irwin Kostal - Grand Waltz (Sound of Music) — incorporates a “major” My Favorite Things
- Joe Cocker (Live) - Up Where We Belong (with Maxine Green)
- A Spoonful Of Sugar - Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964)
- Nat King Cole Trio - I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)
- Anita O’Day & The Oscar Peterson Quartet- I’ve Got The World On A String — I first heard the Nat King Cole version, but he also didn’t write it
- Anita O’Day & The Oscar Peterson Quartet- Stella By Starlight
- Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Skating In Central Park (Undercurrent)
- Bill Evans - All Of You (You Must Believe In Spring)
- Stevie Wonder - As
- Anita O’Day & The Oscar Peterson Quartet - Tenderly
- Billie Holiday - Night And Day
- Aladdin - A Whole New World
- Gershwin - Someone to Watch Over Me
- Julie Andrews - I’ll Follow My Secret Heart
- Julie Andrews - Camelot: The Lusty Month of May
- Rodgers and Hammerstein - Something Good (Julie Andrews, Bill Lee )
- Howard Shore - The Passing of the Elves
- Nat King Cole - Smile (1954)
- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe - With a Little Bit Of Luck
- Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57 — how many variations were unwritten? Chopin was a master improviser.
- Rodgers and Hammerstein - Do Re Mi
- Rodgers and Hammerstein - Climb Every Mountain
- Rodgers and Hammerstein - The Sound of Music
- Erroll Garner - Misty
- John Williams - Yoda and the Force
- The Blues Brothers & Ray Charles - Shake a Tail Feather
- The Blues Brothers & Aretha Franklin - Think
- John Williams - Princess Leia’s Theme
- John Williams - Binary Sunset (Force Theme)
- The Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme
- John Mayer - No Such Thing
- Without A Song (From the Musical Production “Great Day”)
- Adele - Someone Like You
- Eileen Farrell, Leonard Bernstein - Some Other Time
- Fauré: Après un rêve — such beautiful melodies.. already anticipating the “sus” chord.
- Warren Bernhardt Trio - Au Bord De L’Eau
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (From The New Moon)
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Like Someone In Love
- Hiromi - Seeker
- Cyrus Chestnut - Working Out Just Fine
- Cyrus Chestnut - I Must Tell Jesus
- Ella Fitzgerald - Cry Me A River
- Thelonious Monk - Caravan (1969, Live in Germany) — Stride.
- Bill Evans - Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy) — Wow, so much to learn in the B section. A minor key treasure trove.
- Cyrus Chestnut - Prayer for Claudine
- John Coltrane - After The Rain
- Bud Powell - Strictly Confidential
- Eric Whiteacre - Sleep
- Like Someone In Love
- Bud Powell - There Will Never Be Another You
- Cyrus Chestnut - Entre cloches - Ravel (1897) cover! Harmony is very McCoy Tyner on My Favorite Things-ish during the solo.
- Taylor Swift - The Prophecy
- Shirley Horn - Softly As A Morning Sunrise
- Shirley Horn - Here’s To Life
- Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
- Body and Soul
- Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse (2011)
- Frank Sinatra (1984)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1970s)
- John Coltrane (1960) with McCoy Tyner on piano, Steve Davis on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums; same as My Favorite Things! Interesting ending.
- Coleman Hawkins (1938)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Willow Weep For Me
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Bill Evans - Turn Out The Stars
- The Beatles - Yesterday
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy (Peanuts Theme)
- Ennio Morricone - Ecstacy of Gold
- Dean Martin - White Christmas
- Searows - Only Time
- Adele - Love In The Dark
- Nat King Cole - My Mother Told Me
- Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators — the “carnival” or “clown” song — from playing the theme over a 1-6-2-5 stride left hand
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Odetta - House of the Rising Sun
- Mavis Staples - Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
- Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Frank Sinatra - Theme from New York, New York -
- Count Basie - Lester Leaps In — similar to “rhythm changes” with the A section just a pedal dominant; here the pedal is the tonic. The blues note (flat 3) is the leading town to the B section.
- Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen ~ Poetry For The Beat Generation (LP, 1959)
- Mulatu Astatke – Ethio Jazz Vol. 1 (2006 - Album)
- Alice Babs & Duke Ellington - Heaven
- Adele - Make You Feel My Love
- Duke Ellington - Willow Weep For Me
- Ahmad Jamal - I Love Music
- Nina Simone and Piano!
- Ornithology by Charlie Parker
- Tiny’s Exercise - Nat Cole Trio
- Let It Go (from Disney’s Frozen)
- Pure Imagination - Scott Hamilton
- Stevie Wonder - You and I
- Oscar Peterson - Summertime beautiful solo recording from Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Song Book
- Stevie Wonder - Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
- Justin Timberlake - [Another Song] All Over Again
- Make You Feel My Love
- Adele - River Lea
- Elliott Smith - Can’t Make a Sound
- Stevie Wonder - If It’s Magic
- Pure Imagination - Langston Hughes II
- Johannes Brahms - Lullaby
- The Nutcracker - Dance of the Mirlitons
- When You Wish Upon a Star “if your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme”
- Nat King Cole Trio - I Got Rhythm (dominant pedal over the entire A section)
- There Will Never Be Another You - Arturo Sandoval
- My Funny Valentine - Ella Fitzgerald
- The Smile - Teleharmonic
- November Ultra - Come Into My Arms
- Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, Bernstein conducting
- Samba de Orfeo (from the movie Black Orpheus)
- Tony Bennett/Bill Evans - But Beautiful
- All Of You
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Billie Holiday
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Tony Bennett
- When Lights Are Low (1964)
- turnaround: “so love at least a small percent of me, because I love all of you”
- Steppin’ Out (1993) (sung as ballad; piano solo is swung)
- When Lights Are Low (1964)
- Bill Evans
- Keith Jarrett Trio (interesting 6/8 shuffle stuff on the head)
- Doris Day - Make Someone Happy
- Billie Holiday - Blue Moon
- Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga - Night And Day
- Leonard Bernstein - Some Other Time
- Leonard Bernstein - Somewhere
- Dave Brubeck - In Your Own Sweet Way
- Niia - All I Need
- Duke Ellington & Count Basie Orchestras - Battle Royal
- Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong - Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
- Debussy - Clair de Lune
- Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
- Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo
- Autoheart - Stalker’s Tango
- Tally Hall - Hidden in the Sand
- JVKE - Golden Hour
- Metheny/Meldau - Bachelor’s III
- Ellington/Armstrong - In A Mellow Tone
- Bill Evans - Elsa
- João Gilberto - Amoroso - Besame Mucho
- Pat Metheny - The Way Up
- the ascent to the climax in part 3 is brilliant
- Fourplay - Bali Run
- Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance
- Steve Reich - Six Marimbas
- Gagaku
- Jungle - Back On 74
- Mac Miller - Congratulations (feat. Bilal)
- AJR - The DJ Is Crying For Help
- Cecile McLorin Salvant
- Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
- Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Atkins
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_von_Oswald
- https://tresorberlin.bandcamp.com/album/borderland
- Broadway: Phantom, Les Mis, Rent, Miss Saigon, Anastasia, Company, Into the Woods, Hamilton, Hadestown
- Bette Midler - The Rose
- “First of all check out the music of West Africa! Mamady Keita of Guinea, Mustapha Teddy Addy of Ghana, and the late great Doudou N’Diaye Rose of Senegal have some great records of drumming from their various traditions; Orchestra Baobab and Fela Kuti are good examples of how Jazz and Latin Jazz influenced modern African music.” — https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/a4v5wc/where_can_i_learn_about_latin_grooves/
- Adele - Someone Like You
- Bill Evans - My Foolish Heart
- Pat Metheny - September 15th
- Windows [Like Minds] — from a search for Metheny + Corea
- Pat Metheny Group - Minuano
- Hank Jones - Up Jumped Spring by Freddie Hubbard
- Joe Hisaishi : Studio Ghibli Experience, Part 1
- Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana
- Organ Freeman - Go by Richard, Not by Dick
- Dua Lipa - Dance The Night
- Still off the hook.
- Roberta Flack / Donny Hathaway - Where is the Love (1972)
- The Circle of Life - Lion King
- Walter Piston - Symphony No. 1
- Uncanny resemblance to Shostakovich.
- He wrote some classic books on theory.
- Symphony No. 2, conducted by a young MTT
- Symphony No. 3, conducted by Koussevitzky
- Barbra Streisand - People
- Alison Krauss - When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart
- Первым делом самолёты. Песня из фильма “Небесный тихоход” Мы, друзья, перелетные птицы
- Marian McPartland – Take The ‘A’ Train
- The Song of the Volga Boatmen / Ey, ukhnem!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsWoNpHg2s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXKoooV9ABE&feature=youtu.be
- Виктория Иванова Купите фиалки
- Boris Shtokolov- Vecherniy zvon (Those Evening Bells)
- Emmet Cohen - Uptown in Orbit
- Jamiroquai - Time Won’t Wait — Marcus Aurelius Meditations, paraphrased
- Victor Wooten - U Can’t Hold No Groove (If You Ain’t Got No Pocket)
- Transcription of Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz Broadcast, 1978 — beautiful inner voices in B section
- M.A. Mathieu - Songs of Samsara
- U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Bill Evans/Monica Zetterlund - Vindarna Sucka Uti Skogarna (Swedish: winds sigh outside forests)
- Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
- The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road
- Talking Heads - Take Me To the River
- Bill Evans - Danny Boy
- Dirty Loops/Great Good Fine OK/Herbie Hancock - Manchild - Hang Up Your Hang Ups
- Bill Evans & Toots Thielemans - Jesus’ Last Ballad/Miles Davis - ‘Round Midnight
- Schubert - Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” - I. Allegro moderato (Bernstein)
- Bill Evans - Nardis (Village Vanguard)
- Praanam, LEVV - I Am
- Bill Evans - We Will Meet Again
- Bill Evans - Nardis (Last Waltz)
- Earth, Wind & Fire - After the love is gone
- Bill Evans - Live At Town Hall (1966) - Make Someone Happy
- Spock’s Beard - All Is Vanity
- Radiohead - Just
- Bill Evans - Danny Boy
- Dr. Lonnie Smith - My Favorite Things (album: Evolution)
- Journey - Don’t Stop Believing
- Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place — the smoothest/fullest synth sound ever created
- Dvorak 9:2
- Mozart - Et incarnatus est. Credo (Great Mass in C minor K. 427) — translation
- A Tribe Called Quest - Push It Along
- Mozart - Missa in C Major, K. 262: Credo
- Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider
- George Benson - Blue Bossa
- John Coltrane - Every Time We Say Goodbye
- Dirty Loops - Crash And Burn Delight
- Herbie Hancock - V.S.O.P. - Maiden Voyage
- Steely Dan - Josie
- Edgard Varèse - Amériques
- Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
- Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
- Bill Evans - Easy Living
- Tritonal - Shivohum
- Empire Of The Sun - Standing On The Shore
- Robert Glasper - Yes I’m Country (And That’s OK)
- GoGo Penguin - Kamaloka
- Vijay Iyer - Accelerando - Human Nature — MJ cover