Ribuan pendengar Jazz24 – sebuah radio publik bernama KPLU-FM yang disiarkan dari kawan Seattle & Tacoma negara bagian Washington AS – melakukan voting untuk mencari 100 quintessential jazz songs atau 100 lagu jazz klasik sepanjang waktu. 100 lagu terpilih dari sekitar 1500-an lagu yang menjadi nominasi.
Beberapa lagu yang dipilih antara lain Take Five milik pianis Dave Brubeck, So What dari Trumpeter Miles Davis, Take the A Train karya Duke Ellington, Round Midnight karya Thelonious Monk, My Favorite Things dari saxophonis John Coltrane. Karya-karya ini termasuk dalam Jazz Standard alias lagu-lagu jazz yang kerap dimainkan dan menjadi lagu ‘wajib’ Jazz.
Yang menarik, selain menyajikan daftar, 100-an lagu ini juga terhubung ke YouTube sehingga kita bisa menikmati referensi musik Jazz terbaik menurut versi Jazz24 ini. Nikmati 100 Quintessential Jazz songs di YouTube
Jazz24 diproduksi oleh Pacific Public Media yang dimiliki oleh Universitas Pacific Lutheran, Tacoma.
| No. | Song | Artist |
| 1. | Take Five | Dave Brubeck |
| 2. | So What | Miles Davis |
| 3. | Take The A Train | Duke Ellington |
| 4. | Round Midnight | Thelonious Monk |
| 5. | My Favorite Things | John Coltrane |
| 6. | A Love Supreme(Acknowledgment) | John Coltrane |
| 7. | All Blues | Miles Davis |
| 8. | Birdland | Weather Report |
| 9. | The Girl FromIpanema | Stan Getz &Astrud Gilberto |
| 10. | Sing, Sing, Sing | Benny Goodman |
| 11. | Strange Fruit | Billie Holiday |
| 12. | A Night in Tunisia | Dizzy Gillespie |
| 13. | Giant Steps | John Coltrane |
| 14. | Blue Rondo a la Turk | Dave Brubeck |
| 15. | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Charles Mingus |
| 16. | Stolen Moments | Oliver Nelson |
| 17. | West End Blues | Louis Armstrong |
| 18. | God Bless The Child | Billie Holiday |
| 19. | Cantaloupe Island | Herbie Hancock |
| 20. | My Funny Valentine | Chet Baker |
| 21. | Body And Soul | Coleman Hawkins |
| 22. | Song For My Father | Horace Silver |
| 23. | Spain | Chick Corea |
| 24. | Blue In Green | Miles Davis |
| 25. | Naima | John Coltrane |
| 26. | Flamenco Sketches | Miles Davis |
| 27. | Waltz For Debby | Bill Evans |
| 28. | Autumn Leaves | CannonballAdderley |
| 29. | St. Thomas | Sonny Rollins |
| 30. | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | CannonballAdderley |
| 31. | What A WonderfulWorld | Louis Armstrong |
| 32. | Lush Life | JohnColtrane/Johnny Hartman |
| 33. | Blue Train | John Coltrane |
| 34. | Poinciana | Ahmad Jamal |
| 35. | In a SentimentalMood | Duke Ellington& John Coltrane |
| 36. | Freddie Freeloader | Miles Davis |
| 37. | Summertime | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 38. | Watermelon Man | Herbie Hancock |
| 39. | Salt Peanuts | Dizzy Gillespie |
| 40. | Moanin’ | Art Blakey |
| 41. | Straight, No Chaser | Thelonious Monk |
| 42. | Good MorningHeartache | Billie Holiday |
| 43. | Mack the Knife | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 44. | In the Mood | Glenn Miller |
| 45. | Desafinado | Stan Getz |
| 46. | Cast Your Fate ToThe Wind | Vince Guaraldi |
| 47. | Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin |
| 48. | Blue Monk | Thelonious Monk |
| 49. | Caravan | Duke Ellington |
| 50. | Sidewinder | Lee Morgan |
| 51. | Django | Modern JazzQuartet |
| 52. | Compared To What | Les McCann |
| 53. | Red Clay | Freddie Hubbard |
| 54. | Ruby, My Dear | Thelonious Monk |
| 55. | April in Paris | Count Basie |
| 56. | Bitches Brew | Miles Davis |
| 57. | Twisted | Lambert,Hendricks & Ross |
| 58. | Maiden Voyage | Herbie Hancock |
| 59. | Mood Indigo | Duke Ellington |
| 60. | St. Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong |
| 61. | Manteca | Dizzy Gillespie |
| 62. | How High The Moon | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 63. | At Last | Etta James |
| 64. | Fever | Peggy Lee |
| 65. | Satin Doll | Duke Ellington |
| 66. | Someday My Prince Will Come | Miles Davis |
| 67. | Autumn in New York | Billie Holiday |
| 68. | Epistrophy | Thelonious Monk |
| 69. | I Loves You Porgy | Nina Simone |
| 70. | It Don’t Mean A Thing | Duke Ellington |
| 71. | Koko | Charlie Parker |
| 72. | Milestones | Miles Davis |
| 73. | Misterioso | Thelonious Monk |
| 74. | Nuages | DjangoReinhardt |
| 75. | Struttin’ with Some BBQ | Louis Armstrong |
| 76. | The In Crowd | Ramsey Lewis |
| 77. | Ain’t Misbehavin | Fats Waller |
| 78. | Bye Bye Blackbird | John Coltrane |
| 79. | On Green Dolphin Street | Miles Davis |
| 80. | Linus and Lucy | Vince Guaraldi |
| 81. | Georgia on My Mind | Ray Charles |
| 82. | Joy Spring | Clifford Brown& Max Roach |
| 83. | One O’Clock Jump | Count Basie |
| 84. | Potato Head Blues | Louis Armstrong |
| 85. | Bumpin’ (On Sunset) | Wes Montgomery |
| 86. | Feeling Good | Nina Simone |
| 87. | Misty | Errol Garner |
| 88. | Moody’s Mood For Love | James Moody |
| 89. | Stardust | Louis Armstrong |
| 90. | Yardbird Suite | Charlie Parker |
| 91. | Diminuendo & Cresendo in Blue | Duke Ellington |
| 92. | Donna Lee | Charlie Parker |
| 93. | Water Boy | Don Shirley |
| 94. | Ornithology | Charlie Parker |
| 95. | Begin the Beguine | Artie Shaw |
| 96. | Ceora | Lee Morgan |
| 97. | Sophisticated Lady | Duke Ellington |
| 98. | Sugar | StanleyTurrentine |
| 99. | Footprints | Wayne Shorter |
| 100. | Four on Six | Wes Montgomery |
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