[Roundmidnite]

I'm doing my graduate recital on flute in the fall. After the Bach, Mozart, etc. I'm doing some jazz and am trying to decide on which tunes to do. I'd like to do a really beautiful tune and there are so many options, and probably some tunes I don't even know, which would be really cool. Any ideas greatly appreciated. (Not flute specific- just looking at tunes).

 

[mijderf]

A couple that I like on flute are Rodgers and Hart's "Where or When" and the old Nat King Cole version of "Nature Boy". Nature Boy in particular has a haunting melody.

 

[TomOhio]

I Remember Clifford
Angel Eyes

 

[mrpeebee]

I like these ballads a lot, but maybe also because of the version I shared with them:

- 'Time After Time' - Ben Webster version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lZAE9s6O7A

- 'The Nearness Of You' - Arnett Cobb version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKy0fa1SjvA

- 'Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered' - Von Freeman version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBCsei72Js

- 'Laura' - Dexter Gordon version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDgOslBTi4

- 'Alone Together' - Archie Shepp version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdArkLf-8Q

I could go on (but won't)!

 

[10mfan]

Lush Life


Blood Count

 

[whaler]

Lush Life

That would sound great on the flute.
Strayhorn’s Blloodcount really enters into the “haunting” for me.

https://youtu.be/-91w0TGooKo

 

[Benny]

Lush Life
My Romance
Miss Otis Regrets (Ella version- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PVnAQcRIkZo)

 

[SaxMandu]

I Remember Clifford
Soul Eyes

To name only a couple...

 

[blue boy]

Pure Imagination

Good luck on the recital!!

 

[NPeabs]

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - nothing complex about it, but "hauntingly beautiful" is exactly how I would describe my feelings toward it.

 

[saxoclese]

Round Midnight

 

[Saxydude]

"Everything Happens to Me" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZcptcvfs0

"Autumn in New York" (seeing as your recital is in the fall) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-v5S0VA9MQ

 

[Alain Gen]

Stars fell on Alabama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcWxY-K9vk
After the rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2tpX6Z-QA
Smoke gets in your eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAxA2lWCGA
Picasso (maybe not exactly a ballad ?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhbUTg87jU

 

[Dr G]

Round Midnight

Well, duh...

I recall hearing Tim Price playing this on alto flute. Whew... Yeah!

So, yes, that is a +1 and Amen for 'Round Midnight.

I played a big band arrangement of 'Round Midnight by Robert C. Jones that had the most amazing trombone soli. Absolutely haunting.

 

[saxphil]

Where Are You?
Dex, from the Go album.

 

[rhythmisking]

+1 for Soul Eyes. Incredibly beautiful tune, not that well known. Coltrane's ballad version is gorgeous.

 

[sgray]

Listen to Joe Lavano play Body & Soul . Epic , with other great players with him

The best , Steve Gray www.stevegraysaxes.com

 

[Karl391]

Stan Getz “Be There Then” on soprano.

 

[zonepeter]

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat

 

[Nefertiti]

i've always loved "The Summer Knows" since hearing Phil Woods play it when I was in high school. I even performed it as a senior in the concert........