It’s hard to boil down an entire decade of great music to just 50 songs. Inevitably, there are going to be plenty of great tunes left out. Here is an alphabetical order (by artist) rundown of the songs that didn’t quite make the Colin’s Review final cut, yet still deserve to be recognized:
- “Love for Sale” by Cannonball Adderley
- “April in Paris” by Count Basie
- “Deep Feeling” by Chuck Berry
- “Roll Over Beethoven” by Chuck Berry
- “School Days” by Chuck Berry
- “Moanin'” by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
- “Cherokee” by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- “Daahoud” by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- “Delilah” by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- “Gertrude’s Bounce” by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- “Time” by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- “Please, Please, Please” by James Brown
- “Blue Rondo à la Turk” by Dave Brubeck Quartet
- “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck Quartet
- “Honey Hush” by Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio
- “What’d I Say” by Ray Charles
- “The Duke” by Miles Davis
- “Flamenco Sketches” by Miles Davis
- “I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)” by Miles Davis
- “Jeru” by Miles Davis
- “Miles Ahead” by Miles Davis
- “Move” by Miles Davis
- “Nature Boy” by Miles Davis
- “Venus de Milo” by Miles Davis
- “I’m a Man” by Bo Diddley
- “Dancers in Love” by Duke Ellington
- “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” by Duke Ellington
- “Skin Deep” by Duke Ellington
- “A Tone Parallel to Harlem (The Harlem Suite)” by Duke Ellington
- “Anything Goes” by Ella Fitzgerald
- “Seventeen” by The Fontane Sisters
- “By the Fireside” by Bernard Herrmann
- “God Bless the Child” by Billie Holiday *
- “Lady Sings the Blues” by Billie Holiday
- “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday *
- “Look at Me” by Buddy Holly
- “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly & the Crickets
- “Moanin’ at Midnight” by Howlin’ Wolf
- “Moonlight in Vermont” by Wynton Kelly
- “Theme for Sunday” by Stan Kenton
- “Black Coffee” by Peggy Lee
- “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” by Jerry Lee Lewis
- “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard
- “Love Chant” by Charles Mingus
- “Friday the 13th” by Thelonious Monk
- “Honeysuckle Rose” by Thelonious Monk
- “I Surrender Dear” by Thelonious Monk
- “In Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk
- “Monk’s Mood” by Thelonious Monk **
- “A Night in Tunisia” by Lee Morgan
- “Bloomdido” by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
- “In the Good Old Summer Time” by Les Paul & Mary Ford
- “The Lonesome Road” by Les Paul & Mary Ford
- “Smoke Rings” by Les Paul & Mary Ford
- “White Christmas” by Elvis Presley
- “Just a Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody” by Louis Prima
- “Cry” by Johnnie Ray
- “Blue 7” by Sonny Rollins
- “Misterioso” by Sonny Rollins
- “Only the Lonely” by Frank Sinatra
- “Sun Song” by Sun Ra
- “Rick Kick Shaw” by Cecil Taylor
- “Shake, Rattle and Roll” by Big Joe Turner
- “Unchained Melody” by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
- “Blue Skies” by Dinah Washington
- “Lover Come Back to Me” by Dinah Washington
* 1956 version, taken from Lady Sings the Blues
** 1957 version, taken from Thelonious Himself
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