Jazz Standards

[suppaenitetere]

I was hoping someone could point me to some common jazz standards with fairly defined rhythm guitar parts. I need to be able to find the tab fairly easily, or at least a chord list because i have a really hard time using my ear for some of the complex jazz chords. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[JiMi=GoD]

oooh jazz, to complicated for me, id love to help but i havent a clue sorry!

what are jazz standards anyway? are they like the main "elements" of jazz music that you need to know and incorporate when playing jazz?

rob

[suppaenitetere]

Well i can play alot of jazz, im just looking for stuff thats really going to test my rhythm. Standards in any music are just your main songs that everyone knows/covers. For example, in rock you could probably call purple haze by hendrix or stairway to heaven rock standards. Same thing applies to jazz... On green dolphin street or My favorite things comes to mind.

[JiMi=GoD]

Oh ok cool i understand now!

still cant help you though mate, sorry!
id like to read some posts that can help tho, i wanna hear more on this topic.

rob

[GuitarDave]

If I was you, I'd get a Real Book. they're books with just tons and tons of Jazz standars in them. Here's an example of a page from a Real book, which you can use to tide you over until you get one.

http://www.guitarmain.com/atmnlvs.html