Most Popular Jazz Jam Tunes in Toronto

A list of tunes I've played at public jam sessions in Toronto over the last 2 years that I've been attending as a drummer. 

All of me
Summertime
Now's the time
Au privave
Scrapple from the apple
It don't mean a thing
Satin doll
Blue bossa
C jam blues
So what
Cherokee
Tenor madness
Autumn leaves
Billie's bounce
Black Orpheus
Blue monk
Oleo
Straight, no chaser
All the things you are
East of the sun
If I were a bell
My romance
There will never be another you
What is this thing called love
Footprints
Four
Have you met miss jones
Just friends
Mr PC
Recordame
Solar
Song for my father
So what
St. Thomas
Take the A train
All the things you are
Scrapple from the apple
There is no greater love
Watermelon man
Alone together
Girl from Ipanema
Days of wine and roses
Doxy
Softly as in a morning sunrise
Star eyes
All blues
Freddy freeloader
Ornithology
Impressions
Lester leaps in
Fly me to the moon

Less common
Blues for Alice
Donna Lee
Beautiful love
Wave
Work song
Georgia
My little suede shoes
A night in Tunisia
Tune up
How high the moon
Stella by starlight
Body and soul both fast and slow
Confirmation
I hear a rhapsody
Up jumped spring
There will never be another you
I love you
Out of nowhere
Night and day

The link below offers some good advice to read before you attend your first jam, including a short list of essential tunes for beginners. You don't need to learn the entire list before attending. A blues in Bb and F, a common standard or two, one bossa and you are ready to go.

http://music.unl.edu/jazzstudies/HaarJamSessions.pdf 

Cheers,

​David Story