Autumn leaves

The time has came for this post at last - a post which I've waited for months. It's autumn, and the song, Autumn leaves, the evergreen melody and jazz standard. Written by Joseph Kosma in 1945, lyrics by Jacques Prévert, and American lyrics by Johnny Mercer in 1947. Originally it's a French chanson, titled Les feuilles mortes (The dead leaves).

A song, where beauty meets melancholy, performed it almost a million times, in a million ways.

Some examples:

Autumn leaves on albums:

• Ahmad Jamal - The legendary Okeh & Epic recordings
• Barney Kessel - Autumn leaves
• Ben Webster - There is no greater love
• Bill Evans - Portrait in jazz
• Bobby McFerrin - Play
• Bobby Timmons - In person
• Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' else
• Chet Baker - She was too good to me
• Chick Corea's Akoustic Band - ~
• Clark Terry - Portraits
• Duke Ellington - Indigos
• Erroll Garner - Concert by the sea
• Eva Cassidy - Songbird
• Frank Sinatra - Where are you?
• Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder
• Jacky Terrasson - Smile
• Jim Hall & Ron Carter - Alone together
• Joe Henderson - Four!
• Joe Pass - Unforgettable
• Keith Jarrett Trio - Still live
• McCoy Tyner - Today and tomorrow
• Nat King Cole - The unforgettable Nat King Cole
• Paul Desmond - Summertime
• Sarah Vaughan - Crazy and mixed up
• Stan Getz - The complete Roost recordings
• Steve Kuhn - Pianists on the Sunnyside
• The bird and the bee - Live from Las Vegas at the Palms
• Tierney Sutton - Blue in green
• Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1.
  

Autumn leaves on the Internet, performance by:

• Bill Evans Trio:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhVI7cpcS4
• Eva Cassidy:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXYu-3r1S8
• Keith Jarrett Trio:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io1o1Hwpo8Y
• Les Baxter:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_Kip2xphM
• Nat King Cole:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnp58oepHUQ
• Wynton Marsalis and Sarah Vaughan:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZbI2VZF9K8

The chanson, Les feuilles mortes in the performance of

• Yves Montand:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsVVeojMZs
  

Learn more about it on

http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/autumnleaves.htm

The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold

I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall