I put together a YouTube playlist of some of my favorite jazz / jazz-rock / jazz-blues tunes. This is just one list. I’ll make more.

The entire YouTube list is here, with the songs shuffled a bit so that tunes from the same artist don’t necessarily play in sequence.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZg5UVGaR2Mz5xLAPdnZCwTstb2V9xJM&si=-5w20YNMo4H49VpR

Here’s a list of the performers, sorted alphabetically by the first name of the performer / group :

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Moanin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv9NSR-2DwM

Chase

Open Up Wide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lke5XmX4-BM

Get it On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDdv6xmojI

Chick Corea

Spain ( live with Bill Watrous, George Benson and others )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBRpmnQvU-0

La Fiesta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWekvoJ1Zw

DA Jazz Alumni

Tank! (Theme from Cowboy Bebop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3e1QmWZkGk

Dave Brubeck

Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw

Freddie Hubbard

I Remember Clifford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGO8IY50b4

George Benson

On Broadway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdiEe7TkfI

Last Train to Clarksville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OyznYRIQ8

Herb Alpert

Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7O3eYJptTc

Herbie Hancock

Cantaloupe Island (Freddie Hubbard on Trumpet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io

Chameleon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRrIBqKsJ4

Doin’ It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7wSIDjAes

Herbie Mann

Comin’ Home Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMGiZyKADrU

Jaco Pastorius

The Chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBvxNhaEvHE

Maynard Ferguson

Left Bank Express
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-aziAiHugg

Spirit of St. Frederick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q517csnfJLU

Dance to your Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGrAakWZqRI

Miles Davis

So What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU

Jean Pierre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2d0BBClr8

Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNbqG9PtyE

Spyro Gyra

String Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZF3PI7Im7w

The Left Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAf865-Nu0

Taj Mahal

Señor Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5QWGLZxZM

The Brecker Brothers

Inside Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx2DsFOvXqw

Some Skunk Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMD5kRSZII

East River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnfhHamrULc

Sponge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imeo0pXhuXQ

Tokyo Groove Jyoshi

What is Hip? ( cover of the Tower of Power tune )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA8PKx09ao8

Tower of Power

Squib Cakes(live on Letterman 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DYmebUb0w

Diggin on James Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfj8zxGos10

Victor Wooten

Isn’t She Lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Kw7C6LtoY

Weather Report

Birdland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o

Wes Montgomery

Round Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U