When I started to collect songs for the main Jazz playlist for iReal Pro about 12 years ago, there were no music streaming services. I only had my personal music library, a few real books and my own experience performing this music. Now that I can compare various recordings of any song, I decided it was time to review everything and to add some new ones.
This process has taken some 6 months. Some songs were straightforward, such as classic compositions by Coltrane, Monk, Shorter… as they exist in canonical recordings. Tackling the Great American Songbook songs however, was more difficult as the original Broadway or film music versions usually have very different chords compared to what has become 'standard' harmony for jazz improvisation.
Listen to various versions of a song when learning it and then choose your own preferred chords. That being said, there may still be actual mistakes where a sharp or a repeat bar line may have been left off. Please do let me know if you see something obviously amiss and also, if you find that some important songs aren't represented.
These chord charts are merely guidelines - not the absolute truth
⚠️ Be aware that importing this playlist over your existing Jazz 1350 will result in many duplicates as I have made little changes to many of the songs. If you can and don't have a lot of customized charts and playlists, the easiest thing will be to erase everything and start clean with the new playlist.
Apologies for not presenting a cleaner solution here, but it's a trade-off for giving you full control of the content in the app.
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